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James G. Coon

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The Transition, we called it. The end of the Cold War, an ideological and nuclear stand-off that had defined the lives of several generations. Then transitioning from the deep freeze of Communism to something resembling democracy and a free market. A very old part of Europe had suddenly become the New Europe. Things like this do not happen every day. So I abandoned my career in the corporate world and joined the fray.

In that extraordinary, one-off human laboratory, when Central and Eastern Europe first awoke from the deep freeze of Communism, a lucky few outsiders, including my humble self, were privileged to contribute to a transition of world-historical import.

It was great fun while it lasted.

That era has now passed into history, but my
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Bucharest Tales

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Ljubljana Tales

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