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Officers…we’d work the night shift, unloading train cars, or as security guards. Laying asphalt. The people working alongside me were PhDs, doctors, surgeons. I even remember a pianist from the symphony. I learned how to lay ceramic tile and install armored doors. And so on, and onwards…It was the dawning of the age of business…Some people imported computers, others “cooked” jeans…[He laughs.]
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
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