Question: Does not it seem to you that we all were “placed” into the Soviet Union as a punishment for certain similar crimes we committed in our past lives?

Answer: No, it does not. For there were different conditions in the USSR. See, one could get incarnated in the family of “serf” peasants who did not have the right to move to another place or the right to pension: village residents did not even have passports until recently! But another one could be born to a family of a member of the Communist Party Central Committee — with material abundance and rights to everything. But this is just an external aspect.

But, there are also problems that do not depend on the place of our birth, as for example — problems of death, diseases, self-affirmation among other people, sexual problems... And in accordance with objective significance, these problems are no less important than political oppression.

However, for us, for our School, the situation in the USSR, I would say, was, on the contrary, favorable. Better than any other, it encouraged people to undertake spiritual search, provoking to seek the meaning of life — but, of course, not those who indulged in power and alcohol...

The tyranny of the Communist Party was also favorable for the “hardening of the warrior’s character”, as Juan Matus said.

I do not know whether our School would have formed if I had been incarnated in some “decent” democratic country.