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The Revolution on Granite
A student protest in Ukraine, the Surkov leaks, the world’s deadliest ever earthquake, a leaflet bomber in South Africa and the invention of the nicotine patch.
(Photo: Oksana Zabuzhko wearing a red jumper at the Revolution on Granite in 1990)
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