How Bitcoin Works

Abstract

The former Soviet Union used to be the largest country in the world, with its territory occupying about one-sixth of the entire Earth’s land surface and controlling about half of Europe (all the modern Eastern European countries). As we can see today, most subjects of the “Evil Empire” were not joined voluntarily. Therefore, the communists also had to have the biggest army in the world to be able to watch over such a vast territory. So, they had a draft, a mandatory enrollment into the armed forces, when every young man (well, almost everyone) had to spend two or three years (depending on the military branch they were drafted into) at the most dangerous place you can even imagine.