A foreign delegation visits the USSR... Obviously, the KGB charts the course of the delegation in advance and ensures that everything is exemplary. According to the plan, the delegation is to visit a rural fair and KGB agents find a peasant selling a cow and ask how much it costs. The peasant asks 100 rubles for the cow, but the KGB agents demand he say it costs 5 rubles. The peasant, in despair, tries to persuade them that he will have nothing to feed his children with, but the KGB agents reas…

1960s USSR. The peak of KGB paranoia. Neighbors are ratting out neighbors. Employees report their coworkers to the KGB for innocuous jokes. Nighttime knocks on the door are commonplace. Regular citizens are labeled enemies of the people and taken away. A group of university students are on a government-sponsored trip to a conference, 6 of them sharing a hotel room, as was commonplace on such trips. None of them know each other. At night, they talk merrily amongst themselves, laughing and enjo…

"How'd the date go?" Not good. Too many red flags. *Flashback to her house being covered with USSR flags* I think she might be a communist.

Shoutout to my Cold War reenactment group! We're just a bunch of chill white guys, sitting at a table, acting stressed about the USSR.