Tagasivaateid veerevast vagunist - Hindrek-Peeter Meri

Hindrek Meri started his life in the family of an esteemed diplomat in the heart of Europe. However, when the First World War came and the political situation changed, he, like many Estonians, had to move to Siberia with his mother and older brother Lennart Meri. Illnesses, lack of food and fear of the future were still survived and the whole family returned to Estonia. The author talks about his studies in Tallinn and Tartu, and through this description a personal view of the life of young people in the Soviet Estonia of the fifties opens up.

After graduating from the University of Tartu, the author immersed himself in the civil service for more than forty years, first in the National Planning Committee of the ENSV, later in the Estonian Ministry of Economy. The author has some memorable memories from those years as well. H. Meri's memoirs are interesting in that the author sheds light on the so-called economic system of the N. Union. from the inside - he came into contact with the Soviet system and party functionaries in his daily work.