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In the book A Mountain of Crumbs, Elena Gorohkova talks about how she grew up in Leningrad during the Cold War.

Disobeying her mother, she studies English, which eventually gets her out of the Soviet Union (she meets an American guy). What's arresting here is when she tells of coming across the word "privacy."

Neither she nor her tutor could translate it.

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