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How a Texas Grocery Store Ended the Cold War [Very Special Episodes]
15 November - 43 mins
Podcast Series
Noble Blood
In 1989, Boris Yeltsin walked into a Houston supermarket — and walked out ready to end an empire. What he saw in Texas that day would shake the foundations of the Soviet Union. Decades later, it also made a pretty great musical.
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