The 1960s of the twentieth century, the Soviet Union. The country’s best years. The time when people believed in a bright future, when life improved year after year… Or was it the time when the main factors for the future collapse of the USSR finally took shape—utter degradation of the party, criminalization of trade, clumsiness of a planned economy, the people’s disillusionment with communist slogans, and much else? The question is not simple, but our contemporary reader will have to sort it out—because they’ll have to live there now.