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August 14, 2020
“Dobre Utra – Minsk station now…. Next station-Vilnius”, shouted the train attendant. A steaming cup of samovar-brewed tea woke me up from my vodka infused sleep. In January of 1993, the temperature at Byellorussky Station in Moscow had hit a low of  -20°C the night before. A substantial medicinal dose of Vodka was more than...