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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Dec-10-10 10:56 AM Response to Reply #211

I was 17, spending a year in Paris with my parents. I dropped out of my lycee to hang at the Sorbonne when it was occupied, then photographed the demonstrations in May. In June we went travelling through Europe, and were in Prague in July, singing protest songs in Wenceslas Square with the Czech kids. When we crossed the border from Czechoslovakia into Ukraine we saw trains of flatcars loaded with tanks, and we knew what was coming. We were in Moscow two weeks later when the Russians went in. Here are some of my pics from Paris:

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