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Life behind the iron curtain

Start the Week

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Introduction

Start the Week with Adam Rutherford and Jamie Bartlett. In 2012, a new charity grants wishes to seriously ill children. Karl Schlurgel is professor of Eastern European history in Frankfurt. And filmmaker Adam Curtis has focused his attention on the fall of communism in the USSR from 1985 until the end of the century.

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