"I remember that day, because it happened exactly the same date of today, 22 years ago. I was coming back from Moscow, where me and my husband were in holidays. We were tighter with our daughter in a Dacha. I switched on the TV and there was the swan lake and I said to my husband - something may is happening-; he was studying in Moscow, so he started to receive phone calls from there, from people asking what was going on, because there the radio stations were blocked. We were afraid. And the child was away and she did not know what to do. Here in Saint Petersbugh the radio was working and we heard that tanks were entering in Moscow. 
It was a very exhausting period of Perestroika… I remember also the booklet of tickets we had to receive goods, we started to see on it strange goods like an Indian substance, chemical… There were a restricted number of goods, but the vodka was never short; the booklet was individual and everyone have access to a regular quantity of vodka. I presume that was the moment when the alcoholism probably started."

class:human