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African Students Flee Soviet Union to Bonn Refuge
Hundreds of African students leave the Soviet Union amid race discrimination and a deadly Moscow student protest. West Germany sets up Wickrath processing center to handle the influx and absorb displaced learners. Liberian student William Appleton reports harsher prejudice in the Soviet Union than elsewhere in Europe. Many say they received better student allowances in Communist countries but endured discrimination nonetheless.
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