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who grew up in Moscow in the 1930s,
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because his father was the Persian ambassador to Moscow.
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In the purges people were now seeing their parents,
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and people were being taken away in the night,
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and there were boots in the hall,
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and it was a pretty damn scary time to live.
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One day he was in this big school.
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He was in collège, middle school.
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He's twelve years old, basically.
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He is sitting in one of these big buildings there,
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and the bell rings to go from one class to the next class.
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The bell rang and the guy who was sitting in front of him,