daily life behind the Iron Curtain

[ChrisD(RJ)]

To be fair to stereotypes:
- --even in the height of the Gorbachev era, we were conscious occasionally
of 
being deliberately tailed. Perhaps the funniest part of that: Only a couple 
of our group smoked, but often our tails did. Sometimes we would yank their 
chain by inserting the MInistry of Health anti-smoking warnng into our 
conversations, VERY loudly.
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You were a foreigner from an enemy country! Of course you were tailed.
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- --Spouse tells really hair-raising story about his appendectomy--without 
anesthetic.

DoreneC
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Anesthesia in Russia costs money.