Decades of Soviet-inspired compulsory schooling in Russian taught most East-Central Europeans to resent any visible sign of the language in their country and to shun its use. Since the region opened up to the West, English and German have quickly replaced Russian as favored second languagesby VICTOR GOMEZ IT WAS ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO […]

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