@sdelanovussr: In the Soviet Union, my son wanted to surprise his mother with a birthday gift she would never forget. Instead of buying flowers or writing a card, he secretly gave himself a homemade tattoo that simply read "МАМА" across the back of his hand. What I discovered next was even more unbelievable. Together with his classmates, he had turned a friend's apartment into a secret underground tattoo studio. Using a homemade tattoo machine built from a plastic pen, a cassette player motor, a wine cork, a guitar string, and the power cord from an old Soviet iron, they spent their afternoons giving each other the most ridiculous tattoos imaginable. As an engineer, I couldn't help admiring the creativity behind the machine... but as a father, I realized I was about to have some very uncomfortable conversations with half the parents at school. #USSR #sovietunion #History #story

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