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Re: The best books on assassinations

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Post by sam_lowry_ »

This is a bit off-topic, but Navalny calling his killer and pranking him into telling all kinds of nasty details of Navalny's own killing attempt is mind-bogging [1]. I am sure this is now part of all secrets services of the world 101 trainings.

Full audio with English transcript: [2].

There is also a bit of background told by Navalny later on, e.g. the name Maxim Sergeevich Ustinov was not really random.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibqiet6Bg38

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlJbwUhIBxE

P.S. fivebooks.com seems to be spamming HN quite regularly.

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Post by snypher »

sam_lowry_ wrote: post #2

This is a bit off-topic, but Navalny calling his killer and pranking him into telling all kinds of nasty details of Navalny's own killing attempt is mind-bogging [1]. I am sure this is now part of all secrets services of the world 101 trainings. Full audio with English transcript: [2]. There is also a bit of background told by Navalny later on, e.g. the name Maxim Sergeevich Ustinov was not really random. [1] https:/…

I think the last fivebooks.com link was posted 45 days ago?

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Post by bazeblackwood »

> "Hitler, uncharacteristically, cut short the speech he was making to go and plan the invasion of France. Had he continued speaking, he would have been blown to pieces in November 1939. That would have surely have been a very good thing because, in the period between that event and the June 1944 bomb plot, two-and-a-half million German soldiers died."

Ah yes, the group of people who were famously killed en masse because of Hitler between 1939 and 1944... German soldiers.

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Post by GordonS »

bazeblackwood wrote: post #9

> "Hitler, uncharacteristically, cut short the speech he was making to go and plan the invasion of France. Had he continued speaking, he would have been blown to pieces in November 1939. That would have surely have been a very good thing because, in the period between that event and the June 1944 bomb plot, two-and-a-half million German soldiers died." Ah yes, the group of people who were famously killed en masse bec…

I mean, 2.5m dead German soldiers is horrendous of course... but yeah, I have to agree... it's a very odd choice of phrase to make here?!
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