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Melania Trump: “I heard [about neighbors watching and reporting] later in…”

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Melania Trump

Published | Video Starts at 02:50

You are too young for that. Did you hear stories like that? Like, is that just a movie thing where neighbors are watching? Neighbors and families, like I heard. I heard [about neighbors watching and reporting] later in life from my parents, but when I was much younger, No, I did not. I wonder what kind of an impact growing up under the veil of communism has on a child. Like, for example, if Baron was growing up in communist Slovenia, do you think he would be the same as he is today? (02:50–02:58)

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Asserts that she learned about surveillance practices in Slovenia only later in life.

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