You’re lucky I’m further up the hierarchy than the deputy minister of agriculture, Hans.https://medium.com/media/972f6d6a654fff5059f1d7656415d388/href

Summer 2012

Hans Bergman was but one of the handful of bleary-eyed Europeans awaiting their baggage after a bumpy descent into Dushanbe. Dishevelled security guards, awaiting their next tea break, looked on as bags began to trickle out. The locals on the flight stacked boxes of televisions and rice cookers they’d procured in Dubai.

Hans had left his ...