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World Service,22 Jan 1993,28 mins

Back to Europe

East Meets West

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The fall of communism in 1989, saw citizens of the former Soviet Bloc, turn to the West in pursuit of what they saw as a "normal life". "Normal life is a life without crisis, stability, with good economic situation, perspectives, and a future," says Pole Piotr Wroblewski.

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