‘That’s in Russia! I had to look it up in an atlas. Not far from the Baltic Sea. There are several small countries in those parts: Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia … With Poland and Russia surrounding them. The national borders don’t match ethnic boundaries. From one village to the next you change language. And on top of that you’ve got Jews spread all over, constituting a separate race. And besides that, there are the communists! There are border wars going on all the time! And the armies of the ultra-nationalists … People live on pine-cones in the woods.
