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help Russia
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and possibly encircle Germany
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by not attacking directly through the western front,
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but coming around through Asia Minor.
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This landing was a catastrophic failure.
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It was the brainchild of Winston Churchill who,
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until 1940 when Hitler
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made him the great man that we all remember,
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was a complete failure.
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politically and in military affairs.
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Gallipoli was his idea, and he shared in the form of
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what is now called Orientalism,