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20: The rigged JFK election

Lateral with Tom Scott

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Were They Crossing the Iron Curtain?

The names Heinz Meijkzner and Margareta Turau are not that linguistically different as you think. There were a lot of focus on the names and how different they were. It's this pre- or post-Berlin Wall, I'm not sure if 1963 the Berlin Wall was built yet. Is it like militarized? Was it sort of like... Yeah, if you were trying to get East Germany to West Germany, it was the most impossible to get through.

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