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Vladimir Putin, the KGB and the German Nazi Gangster Who Was a Communist Spy

The Underworld Podcast

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Sontag - A Great Way of Cleaning Up the Streets

By this time, so by this time when the wall falls, Putin runs off in a hurry. Sontag himself just comes back off his own volition to try to cause this Nazi wave in the East. And he kind of does. He targets these guys called the Huchtenshpila, the three-card tricksters that sort of line this main street in downtown Dresden going up to the train station. They're just like small-time scamsters, but a lot of them are foreigners. So he starts with them, starts beating them up, starts cuffing them, handing them over to cops. Then he starts on Vietnamese cigarette sellers and you've got to bear in

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