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The only time I’ve visited a communist country was when I went to Poland in 1980, not long after Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government was first elected in Britain. I first visited the former East Germany in 1997, eight years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and a few months after Tony Blair’s ‘New Labour’ government was elected. White Hole recalls these experiences many years later, and questions the idealisation of life in other places and political systems. It remembers a time when we could at least imagine that the grass might be greener on the other side.