”Russia: A Kansan’s Perspective” 1986 Revisited

Jeffrey Hardeman and I were part of a U.S. delegation of reporters and farmers who were allowed into the USSR in the last years of the cold war.  We produced a TV documentary that is a glimpse of how it was at that time. 

It was also the era of Glasnost and Perestroika.  An era defined as "openness and reform".  The last Soviet Premiere, Mikhail Gorbachev, was showing willingness to ease up on the people under his control.  We were, however, handled and watched closely.

We were also in Ukraine, a country with immense natural resources and proud people.  They had no idea then that they would be free from Russian dominance in a few years but back under it in a major war in just three decades.

The documentary: “Russia: A Kansan’s Perspective” is twenty five minutes long.

Here is a link to it on UTube:   Copy and Paste into browser.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f3zObXTyrI&t=5s