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As a foreigner, you would've gotten into a decent hospital had anything happened, unless you were going into some remote part of the country, which you weren't in '88.
I don't know anyone who takes their own "blood supply" on trips to Russia, now as then. Is that for a specific condition, like hemophilia or something? It sounds pretty wild.
You're right about the problem not being new however. Life expectancy peaked in the mid-sixties and has been going downhill since then. The '80s and '90s saw an acceleration of the decline, however.
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