Excellent. This is the best piece of confic I've seen come out of the Liminal Archives so far. The slow burn pacing was perfect, keeping things interesting over 16 log entries is no mean feat but it's accomplished effortlessly here. I wanted to upvote at the 'I’m starting to miss what food tasted like, how it felt to drink water, how reassuring it was to look up at the sky and see clouds or sunlight.' line and did, then I tried to upvote again when I finished reading. Thank you for writing this!
Such is life in the Soviet Union