Remember our cleaner? He finally took some advice I’ve been giving him for about 6 months. Leave town.

He was only in Kyiv to get the visa issued for his wife and kids. They closed the Kyiv Visa office sometime in 1985.

He has left Kyiv for dneproderjinsk or some other misspelt small Ukrainian town. They’re going to live in his wifes flat - which she owns so they live rent free. A big different to Kyiv where they were living about $300 above their means every week.

Here they are after I drove them to the station.

The small parcel is the new baby which answers his earlier question. Ask me who packed the car. Don’t ask me how they managed on the train with those bags.