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Part One: Basil Zaharoff: The Man Who Sold World War One

Behind the Bastards

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Harnessing Teenage Girls

Basil Zahaarov was a Russian arms dealer who made millions by selling subways and machine guns to European countries. He created the "Sistine" system of sales, where he would panic one country then another so he could sell arms to them all. H.G. Wells: I think teenage girls would make excellent intelligence officers because that's what organizations do is they're just gossiping. Well, no, let's not use teenage girls for anything, but let's harness their power.

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