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 TEST 3 APRIL 5 Test 3 April 5 In the summer 1988 I went back to Europe through Moscow after having been in Beijing for about a year. I found reform in the Soviet Union in full swing. The procedure on arrival at the airport was not too bad and the city was fantastic. The architecture was beautiful, the roads wide and the underground railway so modern. Everything was in sharp contrast to Beijing, which looked run-down, full of grey houses in poor repair lining dirty roads, and with one line of underground railway without escalators. Even the Moscow taxi driver, a huge, blond Afghan war veteran, could speak some Italian. I felt I was back home, back in Europe, back at my roots. |
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