It was -- and is -- an insane period of time to live through.<p>What concerns me is that during the last days of the old Soviet Union, they knew the jig was up. They knew it was all falling apart.<p>So they started hiding stuff. Everywhere. Papers were destroyed. Chemical and biological weapons were taken out and buried.<p>So there&#x27;s one problem with &quot;dangerous stuff we know about and we&#x27;re worried that it&#x27;s not being protected well&quot;, then there&#x27;s an entirely different (and more dangerous) problem of &quot;dangerous stuff we never acknowledged existed and nobody has records for where it is any more.&quot;