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In the Soviet Union, finding new batteries was often harder than repairing the old ones. So when my radio died in the garage, my friends showed me a legendary trick: hammer the batteries, boil them in salted water, and somehow bring them back to life. Everything worked perfectly until I decided to revive an entire box of dead batteries at home and nearly turned the kitchen into a disaster zone. #USSR #sovietunion #history #story

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