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Part Four: Nicolae Ceaușescu: The Dracula of Being A Dick

Behind the Bastards

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Are You Supposed to Not Eat Potential Horse Meatballs?

During the 1980s, a number of communist states are having these like economic crunches. IKEA realized that it was really cheap to have East German political prisoners build their Billy bookshelves and other bed frames. So that was one of the things IKEA got up to in this period. It's okay to make fun of the way Swedish people talk here because they're funding a secret police force.

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