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The Soviets detonated hundreds of bombs in Kazakhstan in preparation for a nuclear war that never came.

Bill and Lyla had graduated, gotten married, and departed directly for Europe. Lyla’s parents had given them a thousand dollars to spend on a honeymoon, sowing the seeds for months of argument. Bill wanted an adventure, but Lyla, who had...

Surviving the Soviet Hangover in the former USSR’s last dictatorship.

All I can do
to keep from believing
where, in truth, your last steps led,

How My Love of Belarusian Tractors Got Me Arrested by the KGB

my little grandmother
knows no pain
she believes that
hunger—is food

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