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Mar 2023
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THE LAST SOVIET - EP 5: Three Hot Days i...

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Sergei makes the decision to stay in the space station. But a few weeks later something happens that changes everything. Mikhail Gorbachev disappears. What happens over the next 3 days will decide the future of the Soviet Union once and for all. Three days that changed the world. 

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