audio translation
I think I am not strong at all. I have passed through hard things, but when I compare, I see that I have had a very soft life compared to the lives of those intellectuals, musicians, poets - hardest times… when people could vanish for their own thoughts. A person like Mandelshtam in those jails, in exile, under those pressures, terrible things have happened, this is why our time is very humane, reformed, and even in the nearest past we didn’t have those opportunities that we have today.