What I think is funny is, on the day of the greatest importance / significance in the history of my life, to date, the dissolution of the USSR, what I remember is the stress of teaching an old gruffy WW2 trench general how to open a folder on Windows with a mouse
One of my first memories of school was in kindergarten and doing an under-the-desk USSR attack nuke drill that first week of school. So, the USSR was imbedded in my psyche