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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Stalin Line is a military history park. They have WW2 bunkers, loads of Soviet vehicles and an area where they do reenactments. And you could fire that monster rifle and an AK47. They also had a funny story about Hugo Chavez, who watched a reenactment and when the red flag fell down he ran onto the field, full of people with guns (loaded with blanks, but still) and his bodyguards, armed with apparently real ammo, followed him.














  • Challenger and Chernobyl, as they happened within a few months.The shape of the Challenger cloud will be forever seered into my brain. And after Chernobyl we had to seek cover immediately when it started to rain and weren’t allowed to play on grass, I’ll always remember that sense of unease. We also had two young kids from the Ukraine in our home for a while. Thinking back on that I feel so bad for them. They were so far from home and communication only worked through a paper dictionary. They didn’t shower for a while because they were told water was very expensive. Somehow their hovercraft was full of eels.