Bernie's Time Machine: The New Soviet Union
Freedom pains as the Cold War wound down.
“You traveled a day and a half to Moscow to steal somebody’s sneakers?”
In 1990, months after the Berlin Wall fell, I traveled with the 48 Hours crew to Moscow to cover how Russian citizens were adapting to newfound Western culture. The Cold War hadn’t quite ended yet, but things were very much headed in that direction.
It wasn’t an entirely happy story.…
