because she assumed she was some sort of KGB provocateur) is funny, touching and illuminating. By marrying … Demonstrating her western car to friends in a Russian village, she offered to let an old peasant try out the joys of the heated driver's seat. But what … And so is this, a sort of mirror image of the same event at the other end of the journey: 'We journalists stood to the side and at quite a distance from the men, who were lined up with their vehicles. One young … …

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A Moving, Honest, Decent Book -The Ice Walk – Peter Hitchens blog