However, the model of this deeply personal behavior
was much more widespread. In the USSR, life was structured to be unofficial.
In the absence of private ownership, private life took on preeminent importance.
The authorities wanted to make the Soviet individual a collectivized individual,
but it turned out that during the 1960s through the 1980s, the typical citizen
of the country was (and in many respects still is) A deeply private person,
effectively protecting his circle of friends and family from the powers that
be.
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