The past is a different country... and so were Russia and China. It's 1992 and the Cold War has been won. The wall has fallen, summits are reducing nukes and McDonalds is advancing on Beijing and Moscow. Armed only with a pack of Uno cards, a pair of army-surplus coats called Grigor and Vlad, plenty of duty-free booze and livers of steel, Frank and Ian are enjoying the trip of their young lives, taking the fabled train from one side of the newly liberated world to the other. But not everyone is letting go of the past so readily and before they know it, they're getting involved with characters not even their encyclopedic knowledge of Bond films can prepare them for. It doesn't help that their beer glasses are tipping the scales of fate. If ignorance is bliss, these two Aussies ought to be the happiest guys on earth.
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