The Essay - The World Turned Upside Down - Episode 5

Essayists from former Warsaw Pact nations reflect on an apparently banal object.

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The World Turned Upside Down: Series in which essayists from former Warsaw Pact nations reflect on the changing use and meaning of an apparently banal object. 5/5.

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