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Jul 2020
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Un exiliado en Rusia (An Exile in Russia...

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In 1973, 16-year-old Víctor Yáñez travels from his home in Chile to the former USSR to study agriculture. But when a military coup strikes at home, he's stranded in Communist Russia…for the rest of his life.

A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3KYKYX1.

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