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What shocked me the most?
How I felt I'd been dropped down into the 1930's in Siberia. Very surreal - with all the old wooden buildings and dirt tracts...like time traveling.
The other thing that shocked - and saddened me, were all the stray dogs running the streets, dodging traffic and sitting huddled in any spot of sun they could find in December. I don't know how they survive in such cold....and many didn't as I saw several dead dogs as well.
In Moscow and in Siberia it seemed people walked everywhere. I saw people, young and old, walking long distances with bags of groceries etc, from shopping areas to their apartment complexes. I realized that owning a car is out of reach for many there and there didn't seem to be much public transportation.
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