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Erika Benn, an energetic, fast-talking 77-year-old woman who guided generations of East German students through the nuances of the Russian language, is sitting on a couch in her apartment in Templin, 80 km north of Berlin, reminiscing about one of her students—a girl so shy that, in the black-and-white group photographs Benn pulls from a scrapbook, she is barely visible, hiding her face among much taller bodies in the back row.
Angela Kasner, as she was known then, was “always an excellent student,” says Benn, but she had a problem. Some of the events in the Russian-language “Olympics” for which …read more
Source: Macleans
