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April 12, 1992 | Kathleen Hunt, Kathleen Hunt is a Moscow correspondent for National Public Radio. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine
IN A CRAMPED AUTOPSY ROOM IN MOSCOW, with bulky, antiquated equipment, a scruffy workman with a hammer and chisel tears open a soldered zinc box to reveal a slender coffin covered with thin red cotton. With the stench of putrefying flesh rushing in each time the door to the morgue flies open, the workman and a helper raise the coffin lid. The bruised and strangled body of a tall, 19-year-old sailor from the Vladivostok fleet lies crammed into the box.
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April 12, 1992 | Kathleen Hunt, Kathleen Hunt is a Moscow correspondent for National Public Radio. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine
IN A CRAMPED AUTOPSY ROOM IN MOSCOW, with bulky, antiquated equipment, a scruffy workman with a hammer and chisel tears open a soldered zinc box to reveal a slender coffin covered with thin red cotton. With the stench of putrefying flesh rushing in each time the door to the morgue flies open, the workman and a helper raise the coffin lid. The bruised and strangled body of a tall, 19-year-old sailor from the Vladivostok fleet lies crammed into the box.
