In the Soviet Union, I finally received the small piece of land I had been waiting years for. To most people it was just six overgrown acres, but to me and my family it was the beginning of a dream. Together with my wife Svetlana and my best friends, Maksimych and Mikhailych, I set out to build our own countryside home during the final years of the USSR. Building a dacha in the late 1980s wasn't easy. Every brick, every bag of cement, and every tool had to be found through hard work, determinati

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