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1 " He was a commander in the Russian army at a time when the Russians were our enemies and still part of the Soviet Union . This wasn't very long ago, Alex.The collapse of communism. It was only in 1989 that the Berlin Wall came down." She stopped. " I suppose none of this means very much to you." " Well, it wouldn't," Alex said. " I was only two years old. "