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Ukraine, looking from America - with Marci Shore | Ep. 113

Explaining Ukraine

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I Was Infatuated With the Velvet Revolution in Tchekhoslovakia

i was infatuated with the velvet revolution in tchekhoslovakia. i wanted to study the philosophy of descent because, like many americans and foreigners, i was captivated by watslav havel's language. And so i wanted to learn check, which turned out to be much harder than i had ever understood. When i was 21 years old, so i went to this very small town in the check republic, a provincial place where everything looked radically different. These were not people who experienced the revolution the way formerly imprisoned disidents did. But one of the reasons i was able to go there is because they were, of course, looking for english chers. Because under

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