I was at Auchan today. The checkout lines were insane. Mostly elderly women. I watched these elderly women, who didn’t look well-off, buying five kinds of sausages, three kinds of cheese, booze, and piles of colorful little boxes, and I thought I knew exactly what post I’d write when I got back to the office. Here it is: DEAR FRIENDS, YOU CAN GO TO HELL WITH YOUR BREZHNEV (Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader)! Under Brezhnev, buckwheat was something you got only as part of a "set ration." And in the military town where we lived, the biggest holiday for kids was when the store got shipments of "kholodok" and "shipuchka" in little packets (popular Soviet powdered drinks).
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