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S1E3: Two Spies Living Lies

SNAFU with Ed Helms

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The World's Most Fucked Up Game Show

Every two weeks spies would report back to KGB headquarters with a list of all the different indicators they saw. Officials would accumulate a tally and that tally would be used to calculate when the attack was coming. Some sources say the Soviets believed once that power balance hit 60-40 in favor of NATO, that meant an attack from the West was imminent. It's just some made-up arbitrary threshold. I mean, this is so utterly crazy. Stanley Kubrick could not invent this.

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