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30 years since the event that changed Europe

It's now 30 years since the momentous events of 1989 that changed the politics and geography of Europe and led to the demise of the Soviet Union two years later. Steve Rosenberg visits a bookshop in the Latvian capital, Riga, for a lesson in Baltic history.

First broadcast on From Our Own Correspondent, 19 October 2019.

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