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Tetris was invented in 1984 by a Soviet software engineer. Because of strict communist laws, what happened to him?

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Tetris was invented in 1984 by a Soviet software engineer. Because of strict communist laws, what happened to him?

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Tetris was invented in 1984 by a Soviet software engineer. Because of strict communist laws, what happened to him?
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