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Between histories: Russia remembers the Soviet era 30 years on

The dissolution of the USSR was a traumatic event for many people. Three decades on, national identity and nostalgia remain complicated. DW's Juri Rescheto reports from Novosibirsk, where he met a man who was born when the bloc collapsed.

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