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I have the copy of the Stasi files, and my husband turned to me and he says,

do you know what you did at the border there at the Berlin Wall?

And I said, no, he says, you pointed at them and you said, now I know who killed my father.

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We return to Ramona Reid's account of her father, Dean Reed, who was an American actor,

singer, songwriter, director and socialist, who became a huge star in Latin America and

the Eastern Bloc.

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new guests on the show. So back to today's episode, Ramona continues the story with details of the latter years of her father's life, as well as her theories about his death.

We welcome Ramona back to our Cold War conversation.

Do you get the impression from his letters and your research that he discovered that

life in East Germany wasn't the perfect socialist life he perhaps thought it was going to be?

Did he have doubts?

I believe that he recognized in every country, in America,

in Eastern Bloc, in South America, that there's pros, in a simplistic manner, that there were

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