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11. Who would've cooked up a scenario where Germany is democratic...

Reply to geek tragedy (Original post)

Wed Feb 8, 2017, 02:50 PM

Feb 2017

and the U.S. is fascist? The Allies flattened Germany in WWII, yet 70-some years later, the biggest allied countries (U.S., U.K., France) are each courting nationalist movements? Russia remains somewhat consistent as an oligarchy.

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