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Botching the Coverage of a Bank Run / Dean Baker

This Is Hell!

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The Great Patriotic War in Russia

Sebastian: The siege of Leningrad is an enduring legacy, but it's basically the entire war. There's the reason why it's called the Great Patriotic War in Russia. Sebastian: One of the reasons why Stalin emerged from the war at the peak of his power and popularity is because he gets celebrated as the guy who managed to repel the Nazis. And so new fronts began to appear across Europe in what British PM Winston Churchill dubbed as the Iron Curtain that has descended across Europe.

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