A parallel universe, June 23, 1992: The Soviet Empire never fell. It has been freshly painted in bright colors and blasts its meticulously clean boulevards and squares with Eurodance music. Rides from Stalin's times await visitors in an amusement park. The city's vehicle fleet is just as old, while private money drives new cars on Karl Liebknecht Street, and prefabricated buildings get hidden behind corporate palaces. Lenin approves, and the flag of the Russian Federation proudly flies.
June 23, 2023: The parallel universe converges with my reality: The city of Tiraspol, capital of the unrecognised "Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic" | PMR | Transnistria.