1979: Big Bang of the Present
Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measures in the United Kingdom. Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution in Iran. Pope John Paul II's visit to Poland. Saddam Hussein's rise to power in Iraq. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The nuclear accident at the Harrisburg power plant and the birth of ecological activism. The year 1979, the beginning of the future.
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Haideh Daragahi
Played Self - Literature Pr…
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Shahin Nawai
Played Self - Biologist (19…
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Chahla Chafiq
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Chris Niedenthal
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Leszek Balcerowicz
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Stanisław Ciosek
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Alfred Wierzbicki
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Hanna Suchocka
Played Self - Jurist (1979)
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Roger Garside
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Wei Jingsheng
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Chas Freeman
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Charles Moore
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Michael Heseltine
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Roy Hattersley
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David Owen
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Lech Wałęsa
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Jan Berris
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Eva Quistorp
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Helmut Schmidt
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Jimmy Carter
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James Callaghan
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Valéry Giscard d'Est…
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Ruhollah Khomeini
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Shah Mohammad Reza P…
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Pope John Paul II
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Deng Xiaoping
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Margaret Thatcher
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Leonid Brezhnev
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Saddam Hussein
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Leopoldo Galtieri
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