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

Behind the Bastards

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Ikea

IKEA denies that they knowingly funded a secret police agency through this deal. There is some evidence that, well, nobody ever wrote this out directly based on their dealings in other countries and their understanding of the situation in Romania. They absolutely knew the secret cops were taking a cut off the top of the money that they were paying. Where do you think your money is going after you send it to a dictatorship? Yeah, some of it's going to pay for the secret police. Everybody knows this. It's cheap labor. And then I sure do like immediate shipping because I'm impatient and I like things being slightly cheaper so I like immediate shipping. So I'm okay that Jeff Bezos is

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