And amongst the chaos, amidst the euphoria, it took me a little while to understand that some of the people who had wielded power before 1989, in Eastern Europe, continued to do so after the revolutions there.
Juceklī un eiforijā, man bija vajadzīgs kāds laiciņš, lai saprastu, ka daļa cilvēku, kuriem Austrumeiropā bija vara vēl pirms 1989. gada, to saglabāja arī pēc revolūcijām.