There are quite a few “statue parks” in Russia where they dumped all the old communist statues. Row after row of lenins, the odd khrushchev or brezhnev, a rare stalin tucked down the back. Lots of actually pretty good art of the common people looking super swole as they march into a glorious future.

All sitting in a muddy field in the outer suburbs of Moscow or Petersburg. It’s a tourist trap but I found it to be a pretty poetic experience when I visited.

John Hannah warned us about this in 1968.

Oh my gosh, this is exactly what I needed to commit to the jump. Thankyou for accommodating us creatures of habit.

international law tells them to seek the first safe country

This is not true at all. It’s not a requirement of the Convention on the Status of Refugees or any other international law.

My favourite version of this is “the difference between a million and a billion is about a billion”