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		<title>Ost German Nostalgia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 'good old days' of East Germany?]]></description>
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		<title>Film Review: I am Cuba [Soy Cuba]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a dash back into the realm of communist block propaganda tinged with a snobby capitalist ascetic, check out the film I am Cuba [Soy Cuba].]]></description>
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		<title>Resurrection of a Soviet Singer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More than forty years after recording a catchy tune, a Soviet singer never expected his widely forgotten melody would make him an internet sensation - and have millions singing along. Edward Hill's song has no real words, but thanks to the web, does have a new lease on life. ]]></description>
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		<title>What Was It Like To Travel in the Soviet Union?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After arriving in a small village two kilometers from the border I had to walk. When the border guards saw me coming, they checked my papers, and they saw that I had entered the Soviet Union from Poland more than two weeks ago. But it was no problem, they thought that I was walking all the time from the Polish to the Romanian border.]]></description>
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		<title>History of USSR for Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lego inspired Soviet history... on syllabuses at a school near you soon.]]></description>
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		<title>Cool to be a Communist?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Should we be celebrating what was for many a brutal and dehumanising system and existance?]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Deal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So it's not just bloc life interested in all things socialist and communist... introducing Real USSR, a collaborative blog publishing all sorts of interesting stories about the former Soviet Union.]]></description>
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		<title>Filter Jugoslavia: A Yugoslav Childhood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the irresistible collectability of Pez candies to the famed beauty of folk singer Lepa Brena, the taste of powdered orange juice to the little dramas of small town life, it's all here in this collection of deeply personal memories which will nonetheless resound with a lot of Balkan people.]]></description>
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		<title>Kommunalka Communities: Shared Homes, Shared Lives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Communal living defined life in Soviet Russia for many people. But rather than being an idealogical concept introduced on purpose, they actually developed because of urban overcrowding and a lack of Stalinist investment in housing.]]></description>
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		<title>Lunokhod 1 Calling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lunokhod 1, a 1970s era lunar probe sent to the moon by Soviet scientists has been found by NASA some 40 years after falling silent. The first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another celestial body, Lunokhod means moon walker in Russian, and the probe managed to send back photographs and soil sample data before contact was [...]]]></description>
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