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In the former U.S.S.R., ‘everything could collapse’

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Was It a Period of Hope?

The Berlin Wall fell because of rock and roll and Levi's. They would see what we had here and say we don't have any of that, we want that. So there was a lot of hope and there was a sense that everything was possible. And it's this sense of freedom that really animated people and gave them the energy to continue.

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