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Churchill’s Cigar
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It was in 1960, or possibly 1961, at any rate before the first Beatles LP,...
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Buchenwald
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‘Once upon a time, on top of a green hill, high above the red roofs of Weimar, there was an oak tree.’
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Taiwan
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‘It is extremely expensive and almost entirely symbolic, for the struggle itself is symbolic, waged mostly by the Political Warfare Department.’
