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The World's Second Underground Railway
There was a kind of this weird undercurrent that was going on in the otherwise incredibly old-fashioned and pompous Austro-Hungarian Empire. You know, around Prague, to a sort of German speaking area of Bohemia, there was scoda and there were these really advanced industrial complexes. But next to them, there were people wearing like homes by medieval clothes pushing plows in fields. The whole scene where this happens is so weird because the uncle obviously doesn't want it to happen but also doesn't feel able to say that it shouldn't happen or what is going on. It's so strange. I think also the Germans were, Buddha had the world's second underground railway and
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