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Article: From Chaska with love: A mailman misses Soviet Union; A Minnesota postal worker went to see the Communist system for himself and returned home to present his fellow Americans with a warm and friendly picture.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 24, 1999
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1/3 While most of America watched the 1989 collapse of the Communist bloc and the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union with triumphal glee, a mailman in Chaska felt his heart breaking.
"A lot of people who thought that was such a great thing will someday realize that it wasn't," said Robert Perschmann, former vice chair of the U.S.-Soviet Friendship Committee, former anti-Cold War activist, former Communist.
Perschmann spent 10 years dreaming that the Cold War would end, but not the way it did. He had worked to make his own country, which he loves, and the Soviet Union, which he also loved, stop their mutual demonization of each other and become friends.
During ...