In fact, the bomb landed about a mile away, destroying an empty high-rise apartment block.

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After the war, the communists decided to exploit a huge coalmine underneath it, swelling the population to 70, 000 housed in block after block of hideous high-rise concrete hulks, utterly devoid of a sense of community.

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