daily life behind the Iron Curtain

[ChrisD(RJ)]

Spouse, while a big fan of Gorbachev, thinks highly of stability during 
Brezhnev era, and this despite the fact that local cops in Ufa really would 
hack bluejeans off people's legs.
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Just out of curiosity, is he a Russian, a Tatar or a Bashkir? Ethnic
relations in Bashkortostan are really interesting.