Red Square is not a famous launch site for Mickey Mouse hot air balloons.
Some stereotypes are based on a kernel of truth, while others are stuck in the time warp of Soviet film. Here, tourists and expats are candid about the real deal. Stereotypes owe much to the Cold War and the Iron Curtain, when only a few people could see for themselves what things were really like "over there." Twenty years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and to quote singer Michael Stipe, it was "the end of the world...
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