My daughter during her degree spent a period in the USSR.
"Bananas are season" meant the shop had its small allocation, do not expect any more any time soon.
Old lady on street corner trying to sell a bunch of carrots, all she had.
"Babushka" on each student hostel floor, noting your coming and going times.
I could go on. If you played it by the system in place, it felt reasonably safe. She went back in post USSR times and did not feel safe.
By coincidence she was in Berlin, the day the wall came down. Climbed the wall and took her own piece from it.
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