During my university studies I spent three weeks in Leningrad in March 1989, 33 years ago. It was interesting and I met many Soviets. The times were changing already then. They had some joint venture companies such as one pub with German counterparts. In the evening in the student housing where I lived I watched Michael Jackson with the Soviets. Now Leningrad is Saint Petersburg , the city that is going to be hit hard by the western sanctions. The economic circumstances were not perfect in 1989, but exchanging Finnish marks to the Soviet rubles made it quite inexpensive to eat and drink at hotels and other places. I have mostly good memories. I would like to visit Saint Petersburg, I even got my new EU passport for doing so, but the current war in Ukraine and the coronavirus pandemic have made it impossible for me to visit this city of millions of people. It just seems that there are more people escaping the future hardships caused by the sanctions than going to Saint Petersburg.
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I’ve always wanted to visit that city too
since I’ve read so much Russian lit.
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