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Hey, this is Cameron Nabati, co-host of Foreign Policy's weekly economics podcast

Ones and Twos.

It's been 80 years since the Nazi surrender in Europe.

And my co-host, Adam Twos, and I are marking the occasion with a three-part mini-series

on World War II.

We'll discuss the colossal scale of the war as an

economic event. I think this is a moment when really talking about quantity and skies and scale

is important because it was just very, very big. Who the economic winners and losers were.

And so on the one hand, Labor wins, but it wins within a game which is no longer going to allow

radical options.

And how the war changed economies around the world.

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