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Rather than his loved ones. How did spellings, lot of books in form, his ruling style of to discuss it. Im now enjoyed by Geoffrey Roberts managers, professor of history at the University College park, an officer of sullens library. As a dictator, as his books. Professor roberts, its great to talk to you in person this time. Thank you very much for your time and thank you for the invitation. Now your books style is library ssl to explore the intellectual life biography and i would say psychology of joseph stalin, whom you described as the 20th century, most self consciously intellectual dictator. And i think its a somewhat controversial undertaking in this day and age because in order to understand the evil one needs to engage for that rather than dismiss it and condemn it out of hand. Why did you decide to do it at this point of time . Well, what would you come on . The most important thing between sounded by my broken up as strong as that he wasnt intellectual. He was a man, man of i
Of the color that is a salty to national reaching. You lie from the russian capital with all the latest from the caustic and middle east and even more. I am michael porch. It has the law forces have reportedly raised the red flag at its algebra. He military base, a colors known to signify vengeance coming after an exchange of flights across these ready lebanese border. The according to the ideas of their strikes on retaliate tree and target the area of neighboring lebanon from where he says that the use ready settlement to last was attacked as his video. He said, to show the aftermath, interest to the r t correspondent. Yes. Seen that can brings us this report from be root. Things are intensifying. The Israeli Defense forces said that the attack against the southern parts of lebanon was in retaliation to prior attacks from municipal lies. The loss is basically the same thing that the attacks from that been on targeting israel were in response to attacks from these read the side. But mo
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