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  "thread": {
    "id": 2781,
    "subject": "tangent squared: invading Russia",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-08-14T14:13:21+00:00",
    "last": "2001-08-14T14:13:21+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0030-0632@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Spectacled Bear",
        "address": "spectacled.bear at pobox.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-08-14T14:13:21+00:00",
      "subject": "Re: (urth) tangent squared: invading Russia",
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      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "At 01:44 2001-08-12, Michael Andre-Driussi wrote:\nthe stupidity of invading Russia"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "I heard recently that not only did far more of the German\nhigh command agree with this beforehand than would admit\nto it afterwards, but that it nearly succeeded. A getaway\ntrain was prepared and waiting for Stalin at Moscow station,\nand if he had turned up and escaped on it, Russia would have\nfallen. Connoisseurs of pivotal moments might like to add this\none to their collection.\n\nAnyone know anything more about it?\n\nSpectacled Bear."
        }
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