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World Service,28 Apr 1993,28 mins

Perceptions and paranoia

The World That Came in From the Cold

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First broadcast in 1993. The US and the Soviet Union represented two social systems, capitalism and communism, and each tried to prove its system was superior. Nothing less was at stake than how people should live their lives.

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