When dreams of becoming a Russian teacher are shattered by two marks in mathematics, and the USE turns into a test of nerves and faith in the system, you realize that the era of promises and hopes is long over. There is nostalgia for sweet literature lessons with the smell of unfulfilled ambitions, and the bitter irony of growing up in a country where education is more stress than a path to freedom. In the end, the only thing left to do is to accept the role of a comedian from the state and watch as a generation, taught by deception, tries to survive in a world where mortgages and sneakers are not just things, but symbols of lost hopes.
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