About the book: 2023 / For the everyday life of the late USSR, it is difficult to imagine a more exotic phenomenon than the hippie movement. Nevertheless, at the end of the Khrushchev Thaw, a large group of people appeared who understood freedom, love and equality in a completely different way from the official ideologists. The memoirs of Vitaly Zyuzin, an artist and participant in street exhibitions, begin in 1983 and consistently tell about his immersion in this environment. The author describes meetings with iconic Soviet hippies, visits to their summer camps in the Baltics and the Caucasus, conflicts with the police, and acquaintances with jazz performers. This reliable evidence, refuting many stereotypical ideas, gives the reader a chance to take an inside look at a community that managed to create its own parallel world inside Soviet reality.