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As a school student in India (then a Soviet ally), I was in the middle of my social studies project work regarding how great socialism and communism was. I received some official propaganda from the GDR embassy in Delhi and the USSR embassy. Halfway through my work in november, the wall was gone and so was my 8th grade project! Even as an 8th grader, I was aware I was watching history unfolding on TV.

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