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In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

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Tom Clancy
Age: 66 †
Born: 1947
Born: April 12
Died: 2013
Died: October 1
Non-Fiction Writer
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Thomas Leo Clancy Jr.
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Thomas Leo Tom Clancy
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