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Stalin: History & Critique of a Black Legend w/ Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro & David Peat

Guerrilla History

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The Kazan Film Factory's Disassembly

The Kazan film factory named after Shishkin was making, of course, film for taking videos and pictures. Immediately after the war began, they almost overnight converted production to producing aviation film for doing spy aerial photography of enemy military facilities. Does this sound like the actions of somebody who's a buffoon and is flailing around and like hiding somewhere? I've been working 14 to 16 hours a day as well documented by the historical record. So yeah, it's very interesting.

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