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To commemorate 30 years since the Soviet Union’s disintegration, Forbes journalist Katya Soldak - director of the feature length documentary, The Long Breakup - hosts a series of conversations with entrepreneurs, cultural figures and business people who experienced life during the transition from socialism to capitalism in former Soviet bloc countries as the Cold War ended and the Iron Curtain lifted. What was it like during those wild years as these nations broke free of communist government control? Find out through these amazing stories told by the people who were there.
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English
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4 episodes
since Aug. 23, 2021
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Georgian journalist and media personality, Giorgi Isakadze, recounts the ups and downs of his country’s battle to throw off Russian influence and pull away from its Soviet past.
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Though Yugoslavia shared many of the iron fisted rules and government control that other socialist bloc nations endured, the nation didn't get caught in the USSR’s orbit. Over the course of three years in the 1990s Yugoslavia split into six different countries, which ushered in a period of ins…
During the cold war, Soviet officials censored or banned music that didn’t pass censorship standards, labeling it decadent and culturally corruptive. Rocker Max Pokrovsky, leader of the band Nogu Svelo!, explains what it was like to break through into the music scene as those restraints eased, as w…
When Ukraine declared its independence from the USSR in 1991, state-run media was still the norm. Thanks to media activists like Ukrainian-America Dora Chomiak, independent media began to gain a foothold in the fledgling nation. From her first encounter with Soviet life in 1989, to her current deve…
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