After the Collapse of the Soviet Union, the soviet baby boomers felt a sense of relief and felt more relaxed because they had the freedoms that most Americans do. However they felt that their government was spilling out nonsense. During Raleigh’s interview with Arkadaii Darchencko, Darchencko thought that the press during the late 1980s were lying about the atrocities that the Soviet government had committed which he states that “what was was being said was a bunch of nonsense” (Raleigh 150). In spite of all the evidence that was given by the leaked secret documents, the Soviet baby boomers were still in denial of the harsh information that was being written in the press because they had a sense of pride for their country and their government
