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The Fifth Column

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Cobra the Dread Cobra

He wrote a book called Cobra the Dread Cobra being Stalin's nickname one of his many nicknames. It starts with a thing about Hitchens and about how Hitchens made a joke about the kind of depredations and the horrors of Stalinism in the Soviet Union. Martin Amis took exception to it and said why why because the subtitle is laughter in the in the 20 million or something like that. He so he writes this literary book there's a literary book but it's a history book and people kind of reacted weird to itbut it's one of those things I think that if you go back to it now I like it at the beginning go back toIt now.

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