1980s
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- You may be looking for The Eighties, a reference book.
At some point in the 1980s, Charlie Flecknoe invented and built a quantum link from Earth to the Moon. (PROSE: Apollo 23)
During the latter half of the decade, Mikhail Gorbachev, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, instigated reform within the Soviet Union through the policies of "glasnost" and "perestroika". (AUDIO: Thin Ice) This ultimately led to the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. (AUDIO: Protect and Survive)
In the late 1980s and the early 1990s, Brendan Richards studied at the University of Cambridge. (PROSE: Housewarming)
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