'Memories of Moscow' Brings the Late Soviet Era to Life
'Memories of Moscow' Brings the Late Soviet Era to Life Author Harald Lipman was the British Embassy doctor in the 1980s. April 4, 2021 In 1983 Dr. Harald Lipman came to Moscow as the resident physician for the British Embassy. Yuri Andropov was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. and relations between the Soviet Union and the Western countries were particularly tense. After completing his first residency, Lipman returned in 1987 for another ‘tour of duty,’ this time to a country being led by Mikhail Gorbachev into the era of glasnost and chan...
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