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and a vindictiveness that,
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as most of you that have followed this at all would know,
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kept the Russian invasion, stalled it
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as he punished the Yugoslavs,
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poured troops into Yugoslavia to slaughter people,
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and then delayed the famous invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22.
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I was in Kiev once and the bells were all ringing.
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I realized that was the same time
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that the German planes had first arrived.
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His intolerance, his flashes of anger,
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his tediousness, his sense of predestined greatness,
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it was all there in the shabby little rooming house,