Loneliness wasn't an emotion that Vitali was foreign to. It was perhaps the biggest thing that he felt when he looked down at the Earth beneath him from the vantage point of a Vostok capsule floating so far above it. Then again, that made him also realize how important everything really was to him. Exhaling a bit, he soon burst out laughing as she suggested that he had been thinking bad things about her.<br/><br/>Once more, though, he had thought of her more as a sister than as an amorous object. As a result, he hadn't thought of anything like that about her at all.<br/><br/>"Oh right, I was thinking of so many bad things that I would have liked to do to you." The very fact that he was laughing about it, and wasn't even blushing, suggested that it surely wasn't true, however. He hadn't thought of anything like that at all.<br/><br/>Nevertheless, the next thing that she had said would certainly have made him feel more uncomfortable. He hadn't really wanted to think about it, but there was something that was bothering him about her.<br/><br/>"I would like to talk about it; you seem different to me, and I had wanted to make sure nothing changed."<br/><br/>One of the problems that she was going to run into wasn't going to be that Vitali was brainwashed, since he wasn't at all. Rather, she was going to meet a different concern about what the Communist Party had been spreading.<br/><br/>Some of the things that they were saying were very true indeed. Vitali obviously didn't agree with what they were saying when it came to ethnic minorities, state control of the economy or people's own spiritual freedoms. In fact, the reason he became a cosmonaut was so that he could showcase the plight of people who suffered under the USSR's harsh administration.<br/><br/>Rather, they were right when it came to the murder and drug abuse rates in the Western countries. Western countries were experiencing a time of sexual revolution as well, and that wasn't something that Vitali was comfortable with either, having grown up in a reserved Evenk culture.<br/><br/>As a result, he hadn't really changed at all. Nevertheless, those were things she would have had a hard time finding a way around if pleading the case of the NATO countries over those of the Warsaw Pact.