Now there’s no unified USSR, so I guess each country handles it differently.

I remember getting put ahead on lines in the US and Israel in the days I had little kids.

You should understand that with the exception of exclusive private hospitals in central cities, medicine is fairly underdeveloped in Russia (and certainly in rural areas such as this). My uncle, who lives in Moscow and can afford the best of care there, still chooses to travel to Germany for all medical procedures (even annual check ups).

So it’s not all that odd for this woman not to have had her pregnancy monitored.

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