Thank you for your answer! It is very interesting that you have such an experience and have seen Soviet Russia. Very few foreigners could do it in those days.

Never saw your question about what I was doing as a Marine in Moscow until I was looking through my user controls and saw the comment. I didn't see it anywhere else are I would have answered long ago. Anyway, I was a Marine security guard at the US embassy. Later we opened the consulate in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). That was in the mid 70's.