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The Great Depression: One Man's Story

A story of growing up hungry in the Great Depression, Cuba's most famous ballerina and the British man whose father and step-father both spied for Moscow.

A story of growing up hungry in the Great Depression, Cuba's most famous ballerina, the special Jewish enclave in Soviet Siberia plus the birth of the UN, and the British man whose father and step-father both spied for Moscow.

Photo: unemployed men queue for work at a dockyard during the Great Depression (Credit:Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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Mon 2 Nov 201504:06GMT
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