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Like an episode of the world's finest cartoon, "Ren & Stimpy," this story begins with yours truly stretched out on a couch watching television while rain falls outside and a crackling fire burns in the hearth. On TV is the umpteenth episode of the CNN documentary "The Cold War." The current installment is about how the hippie era came to both the U.S. and Eastern Europe. I was cued to watch it by an advertisement I heard on our local CBS radio station, KNX 1070, the weekend before. It went approximately as follows: "The Flower Power revolution erupted in America and the Kremlin looked on. But what would the Kremlin do when the Flower Power revolution reached the …