“The youth of my generation coincided with the thaw, we were lucky. We felt a poetic fever, a lot of inspiration, movement, a renaissance, but now, strangely enough, I don’t observe anything like that. The current generation is sticking its nose into shit. In the early 50s we said to each other: “Old man, you’re a genius!” And now, on the contrary, they are digging under each other. However, the chernukha phase turned out to be an unexciting stage. This period has already ended, but another has not yet come.”