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I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months.

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I'll tell you what colonial experience is.

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I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing.

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In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.

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In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.

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In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.

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Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.

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My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

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People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War.

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Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.

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Biography

Nationality: Polish

Type: Journalist

Born: March 4th, 1932

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