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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour Brought to you by joseph stalin Say thank you

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What it is that that's telling sometime All right check

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the following passage Worst dictator of all time stages the

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swimsuit competition And then they had the talent competition And

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then there was the intellectual part where they ask trivia

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questions about how to be evil Okay we're done Robert

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wants to improve the organization of the information presented in

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sentences nine and ten Which of the following is the

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best revision L a running back one hundred All right

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well the original senses have all kinds of problems for

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one that come together in a pretty awkward way More

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importantly the adverb weirdly doesn't quite capture the irony that

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stalin was a u s ally against hitler Well we

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might say the situation was weird A stalin wore a

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bunny suit throughout the year but it's not how it

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all went down Although he does look cute Pink option

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a doesn't help the situation all that much it's super

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clunky And there might be some pronoun confusion Is the

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pronoun he referring to stalin or hitler Stalin Probably but

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things were a little muddy and we don't want to

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see how stalin gets when somebody tracked mud in the

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house He's really a stickler for cleanliness Uh all right

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Choice D is just as bad as the original right

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there Maybe worse How exactly can somebody be allied Strangely

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where the u s and stalin allies on the condition

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that all their troops went into battle wearing bunny suits

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on And that would have been a strange alliance and

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we'd like to see that All right we'll see is

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the first answer so far to capture the irony of

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the us stalin alliance instead of weirdly or strangely we

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actually get the adverb Ironically even though sea winds on

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that front it's still loses the war by being massively

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awkward Yeah moving on All right b is the answer

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that finally gets it right The ironic fact that stalin

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was allied with the u s against hitler during world

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war two should not be viewed as minimizing the evil

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that he perpetrated well clearly points out the alliance was

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ironic and gives all the details of nine and ten

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in a concise way There's no awkwardness to be seen

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Except when somebody asked the u s government to explain

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why they were allied with stalin If he was such 00:02:19.133 --> [endTime] an evil dictator yeah

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