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Radio 4,19 Aug 2011,45 mins

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As fears grow over the strength of the global economy we assess the situation in one of the world's biggest economies, China and in Slovakia, one of the newest members of the Eurozone. It's twenty years today since the failed coup by communist hardliners in Russia which ultimately led to the collapse of the Soviet Union - a tank driver tells us how he decided not to obey orders to crush the protestors.

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