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As with all of Kapuściński's works: fascinating (people here really live this way?); sobering (people here experienced that?); foreign, and occasionally, all-too-familiar. It was a glimpse into a part of the world, and a particular era, in which not many have had access - the Soviet Union at its height and in its dying days. And not merely Russia, but also Armenia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and countless other smaller towns along the way that don't hold allegiance to a country, but to a people group, or a history, or a lifestyle. As always, I enjoy the way that Kapuściński's books take me out of my Western, technological mindset and show me how people live or lived at the opposite of some spectrum from me.