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Cold War Spook

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15. I don't know about now,

Reply to Aristus (Reply #10)

Thu Dec 27, 2018, 12:06 PM

Dec 2018

but when I was at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey in 1963-1964, the teachers I had who would discus it wanted a return of the Czars, not democracy.

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