It was my father’s first trip outside Egypt. He was going straight to the heart of the “Workers’ State.” As he recalled later laughing, such excitement lasted for one week.
He was queuing in front of Lenin’s Mausoleum when suddenly he saw a Russian policeman with a stick shouting, “Stand in line, you animals!” My father couldn’t believe that a “member of…
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