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I’m still here, though my country’s gone West

Originally published: The Tricontinental on April 29, 2021 (more by The Tricontinental) |

A full generation has elapsed since the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) collapsed in late 1991. Two years earlier, in 1989, the communist states of Eastern Europe dissolved, with the first salvo fired when Hungary opened its border.