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Alisa hung on for the wild and drunken ride to Kacha Airbase. It turned out that nothing would do, after a little coaxing and a few teasing suggestions on her own part, except for General Vlad Kozlov to show Manny the latest technology out of Russia. It had just arrived and he was very proud of having it under his local command.
“I am only Ukrainian general that Russians keep,” he’d boasted. “They trust me very much. I am most important Ukrainian man in Crimea military.”
Thankfully being a major general also earned him a driver, a silent and sober man able to escort them safely across the twenty-kilometer transit from the restaurant to the base. The general was certainly in no condition to drive. He and Manny were singing together in some terrible mixture of three languages.
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