Few people, it seemed, wanted to go toward Ukraine. At the same time there was a marked upward trend in the rank of the railway personnel pacing up and down the aisle, pretending to do things. The Soviet Union as a whole seemed to divert a lot of its productive capacity into uniforms, badges, and medals.

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