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Farm Fresh

By By Shaun Assael

Tuesday, April 15, 2003

A brief history lesson: On Aug. 21, 1968, tanks rumbled into Prague, the capital of what was then Czechoslovakia, to crush what had become a rocking little party. The city was part of the far-flung Soviet Empire, and also part of a grand experiment. The Communists had decided to lighten upyou know, let a few flowers bloom, let a couple of writers speak their minds, that kind of thing. Except that it all got too groovy. A nervous Kremlin sent in tanks, and for the next 21 years, everyone moped. ...

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