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Vlad Tenev says he was born in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s, around the time of the Soviet Union's collapse and the lifting of the Iron Curtain.
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“Yeah. So I mean, rewinding back even, even further, I was born in Eastern Europe in the late eighties, kind of on the brink of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the lifting of the Iron Curtain.”5:11Report a misattribution
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