<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by redbeard911:
I had the same thing in 1985. We did manage to sneak out at night and trade some Levi's for military medals and black Russina caviar
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Redbeard911's post reminds me that I should have added that the Russian people themselves were very nice and surprisingly candid to me.
to them.
It was just the government "suits" who made me feel rather claustrophobic.