Wunsdorf, Legnica and Milovice To the question, what is common between these three names, the quickest answer will follow from the male who served in the Soviet Army :) In these cities there was the command of groups of Soviet troops in the GDR, PRR and Czechoslovakia together with large military units, and it was there that additional ambulance trains from Moscow began to take out officer families and freelancers when the process of withdrawal of Soviet troops began. The appointment of these trains was carried out by special orders issued in the last minute, and the popularity of the guides they did not enjoy: drunken with sorrow and fear of the future officer, scandalous officer wives "Mit Kidern and Babychen", not willing to pay for excess baggage, indispensable brigades of inspectors, like griffs flying to the smell of violations... in general, almost guaranteed recovery, and there and before the transfer from overseas to domestic flights nearby. Here they became guides there to appoint students - what are the demands?

Call from the car station:
Can you take an extra flight tomorrow?
Again a milk?
No, the order did not come, today Prague, the tour group.
We arrive in Prague at the Main Station, the center of the city. Eight in the morning, back at two in the afternoon. We quickly prepare the cars for the return flight - now you can go to the city. According to the idea, one conductor should stay in each wagon, but, fucking, what can happen in the quietest Prague at all? There are two students on the whole train (12 cars), the rest together with the boss - to the city for shopping.

We come back early - opla, and the composition on the platform and not. Well, we think the water filled off, the matter of five minutes. Time goes by, there is no composition, we smell petroleum and go to the station boss.
Where is the train to Moscow?
- And he was taken to Milovice, he is leaving there today.
When will he come from Milovic to Prague?
- And he will not go to Prague, he will go directly to Moscow... (looking at the clock)... or rather, he has already gone. What did you want?
We are his brigade.
There is no scene. The head of the station grabs the phone, speaks a lot and loudly in Czech, turns to us:
He did everything he could. Your train will be delayed for an hour in Cologne, this is an hour on the electric train, which leaves in 2 minutes. If you don’t have time, your train will leave without you. The March!

I never ran so fast. We succeeded, we came to Colin, we see the train, we knock - nobody opens. Finally, a sleeping passenger appears:
Should you?
Open, we are your guides.
You surrendered to us, and we are well without you.

When the crew came to Milovic and was delivered for landing, the two students left on it realized that a global crash had occurred, and managed to ensure the landing of the whole crew, and then twice rotated, as if on a paddle, serving 12 wagons. Such a strange system of service of the Soviet train did not go unnoticed by the Soviet military commander of the Czech station, and a telegram flew to the border. The inspectors who arrived on the signal found complete order on the train: peacefully sleeping passengers, a train brigade set, no violations. The chief of the train with the rough brick went into a deaf negative, and the very idea that the train brigade could be fully behind the train was rejected with indignation. There were also no willing people in the ministry to take action: after all, this changed schedule was not brought to the attention of the brigade because of their fault. As a result, the incident was safely forgotten, and we had a saying for several years: "Well, why are you rushing like a Cologne electric car?"