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Dec 25, 2014 the voice that brought hollywood films to communist romanias tv screens. The voice that brought hollywood films to communist romanias tv screens. Communism fondly looks back on the rapid rise of the bootleg vhs market in 1980s communist romania and the cultural and possibly political influence this market had on romanian society. Still, they found in rambo and chuck norris heroes of remarkable courage, models for resistance, for beating odds and. The power of movies is at the center of chuck norris vs.
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