Now a village boy from Altai can go to study at the MGU? It came from our class.
I do not know how the villager from Altai, and the villager from the Magadan region - did. Not that right now, 7 years ago, he was already out of school - but not at all in Soviet times. And believe it, without any money and bribery. By the way, in the USSR the competition was in the MSU greater.