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So back to today's episodes, we have some great stories from that momentous day in 1989.

Welcome to our Cold War conversation.

This is Janina, who was a 15-year-old living in a village near the Polish border.

It was a Thursday night.

I came home with my dad from some sort of Litch meeting,

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