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Radio 4,04 Jun 2009,45 mins

The World Tonight

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Robin Lustig in Gdansk marks the 20th anniversary of the day in which voters in Poland brought down the communist government and set all of eastern and central Europe on a path which, within just a few short months, swept away the Iron Curtain, the Berlin Wall and Soviet hegemony.

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