I'm the one who brought FidoNet to Russia (Soviet Union, to be precise) in 1990. I remember how it was hard to find two more guys with modems and access to auto

I'm the one who brought FidoNet to Russia (Soviet Union, to be precise) in 1990. I remember how it was hard to find two more guys with modems and access to automatic international line in order to request a separate FidoNet region for USSR. Finally we got 2:50 region code in September 1990, and there were three of us - two guys from Novosibirsk and one from Yekaterinburg, both are large cities in the Asian part of USSR. For us raised in Soviet Union, it was eye opening experience that you may freely exchange messages with people around the globe.