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A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee

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Victor Grossman defected to East Germany while serving in the US military in the 1950's. His latest book recounts his assessment of life in the US, in East Germany, and in the united Germany. We discuss the book with the author

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