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There are blogs that are easier to write than others. This is definitively one of the toughest I had to write in years. There will be a total of 3 blogs about our stay in Russia from early February to the day we left at the end of the first week of March. The world in early January 2022 was so different than it is today, and yes I could witness all of it from the inside, bear in mind the comfortab...
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Home and Away
Bob Carlsen
It is a sad day...
Thanks for sharing your personal experience. You stated "One that I shall call home from now on and in the future." I thought you would live in South Africa for the rest of your life! Anyway, Back in 1998 I had business in Russia...cleaning up nuclear waste in the Kola Peninsula. I worked with the Russian (and Norwegian) military, some who had previously worked at Chernobyl to contain the radiation. Everyone was so hospitable. A lieutenant colonel and his wife took me on a tour of the Kremlin on our day off. I just hope you are correct that culture and civilization will prevail.