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This week in the War, 19–25 August 1940: Stalin settles a score

Posted on August 23, 2012 by secondbysecond

On the evening of 20 August 1940, the same day that Winston Churchill made his historic ‘Never in the field of human conflict…’ speech before the British House of Commons, a man armed with an ice pick entered a house … Continue reading →

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