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Mengele. Hi, everybody. Welcome to this broadcast. Im sorry that weve had a little delay. One of our speakers, David Goldman, has had trouble with his computer, and is so we are doing a little improvisation and workaround, so we will have him just on audio, and well see how that goes. But we hope that you can hear well enough if we do it this way. And let us know in the chat box if thats working for you. Just a warm hello to all of you. Im so happy to see that there are so many of you. My name is dorothea, im one of the openers of lab precipitate books, and i want to thank our speakers for being game to speak speak to switch to this new medium, new for all of us, i think, of live stream. We are presenting that tonight in partnership with our very good friends at the princetop public library. I think princeton. I think were all gripped by the precarious and frightening reality of this moment, but or there are so many books that can serve as antidotes, and this is certainly one of those
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To stop this and more im joined by my guest to meet me bob its in moscow he is a political analyst and editor of you know just me internet project and in court we have Geoffrey Robertson he is americas professor of history at University College cork and a member of the Royal Irish Academy his latest book is churchill and stalin comrades in arms during the 2nd world war are gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want house appreciate it or i let me 1st go to a demon here in moscow you know dma here we go again this is almost like our tradition with our calling jeffrey we do this every single year commemorating victory in europe over fascism and for every single year that we do it we find ourselves in more and more in a revisionist mode here i mean as i understand as were sitting down doing our chat right now is it facebook has. And a colorized version of the of the soviet banner over europe the very very iconic one of showing victory in europe and you
To stop this and more im joined by my guest to meet me bob its in moscow he is a political analyst and editor of you know just me internet project and in court we have Geoffrey Robertson he is americas professor of history at University College cork and a member of the Royal Irish Academy his latest book is churchill and stalin comrades in arms during the 2nd world war right gentlemen crossed out roles in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want house appreciate it or i let me 1st go to the demon here in moscow you know d. M. A. Here we go again this is almost like our tradition with our calling jeffrey we do this every single year commemorating victory in europe over fascism and for every single year that we do it we find ourselves in more and more in a revisionist mode here i mean as i understand as were sitting down doing our chat right now. Is it facebook has banned a colorized version of the of the serbian banner over europe and the very very iconic one of showing victor