This is the Friends of Mr. Debating Society.

I am Gaias John Bachelors, Mach of Lejos, Dramanicus is here, first century A.D., we're

very confident that nothing is going to disrupt our afternoon by the Thames with our cup

of wine.

We're going to see theater later.

I'm not sure I didn't look at the bill, but the pandemic has left us, so we're free

to wander in when we will.

However, right now we're looking at the 21st century and the 20th century, because

I've had occasion to read of how the Stalinists, this is the Soviets, handled the foreign media

that wanted to report on the conflict, 1941, June of 1941, until May of 45, between the

Soviet Army and the Hitler Rights, the Vareloch.

And what I've learned, Dramanicus, is that Stalin was very clear, Stalin and Malatov,

and their agents were very clear that their story was the only one going to be told, that

though they had representatives from the Times, the New York Times, AP, Reuters, and all the

magazines, they housed them in one place, Hotel Metropole, they never let them go anywhere

unless they were guarded.

And they censored all the copy, they couldn't send anything out unless it was loop penciled

by the NKVD operating through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

And it was very successful, so only the story of Soviet supremacy was told for four years,

one version that I, an anecdote, early on, the correspondence were all assigned, a translator,

invariably was a very attractive young woman, married or unmarried, it didn't, there was

in particular significance, and the young women were heroines, because they got ration

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