For those of us who grew up behind the Iron Curtain with dreams of owning real jeans, the U.K.âs vote feels like a personal rejection. A happy trio of East German refugees shout "Freedom, Freedom" as their train leaves a railway station in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1989. (Dieter Endlicher / AP ) In 1990, my family drove the 125 miles from a newly post-communist Prague to the Czechoslovak border wi
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