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Before Brezhnev Died Format:Paperback the standout story is VeronikaBy Iulian Ciocan Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth ISBN: 9781628973495 Description The time is the twilight of the decrepit Brezhnev regime, the place, the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldavia: the Latin periphery of empire. A pensioner seeks justice for his dead wife, crushed by a falling crane the very symbol of the construction of socialism but comes up against hostility from a cynical system at best indifferent, at worst contemptuous of human