“No doubt, to this place will one day return plants laden with fruit, Christian icons, a woman clad in heavy petticoats, and the thick smell of vegetable fat. But forever gone will be the humble and bustling life of many young foreign boys, lost in the depths of the steppe, who left in the middle of the night with calloused hands and frozen blood.”
— Mar 12, 2026 11:10PM
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