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  I know a guy that grew up just outside of Moscow. He was in the army, on leave in Afghanistan when the wall fell in Germany and took the opportunity to defect, jumping countries till he finally made it here, and eventually bringing most of the family over too.  It's a much different culture in many ways. Too many to go into, but his "quick" description is it was the Wild West with cars vs horses.  Police, just another gang that robs you. The best place for money was buried.

 They were upper middle class, pretty well known dog breeders for over 100years (Middle Asian Shepherd). 

 He never saw one O train, or even knew a single person who got one. Asking kinda upset him and his story went quickly from his excellent English into Russian. Nothing upsets him. He said he couldn't find himself one, let alone me one, and gave me these from his wallet before again slipping into Russian. I'm pretty sure he carried them ever since he defected.

Someone did a decent post on these sets within the last 6-7 months if you search. IMG_20190110_013530~2

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