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Part One: Nicolae Ceaușescu: The Dracula of Being A Dick

Behind the Bastards

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Are There Too Many Poor People?

This is one of those areas where my moral sort of compass is at odds with the intellectual side of me because on a moral level I think it's always okay to set fires but clearly sometimes fires can be bad and this is something I'm still grappling with Jeff. So Romania in the years after Dracula who gets who gets murdered before he's very old again none of these Romanian princes last all that long. The country does not get its independence until the Russo-Turkish war of 1877 to 1878. It becomes an independent kingdom with a whole Hanzallern region. This is a lot of what sets up World War I but Romania because of how close it is to Germany winds up with

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