But the salary was 1000 rubles a month [huge by Soviet standards], and he got free package bvacation/b tours. Nikolai Leonidovich still goes to the Moscow Military District resort [in Sukhum]. Basically, this means a bvacation/b on a military base. ... Between Adler and the bVesioloe/b, on the border, the conductor collected all of the passengers' passports, explaining that they had to be checked in the computer. The customs guy made us turn all our bags inside out. ...
