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Every year in late December, my childhood home transformed into a vision of American bliss. We’d gather to ornament a tree, drape string lights around the house, and sit down to an elaborate feast.

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To a generation raised after the fall of the Iron Curtain, the Soviet Union may sound like a historical abstraction. But for those who lived under it, the word union ...