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The Black Humor of the American Side
There's a lot of black humor that goes on on the american side, and it's really unpleasant to read. There are many recorded instances of little kind of labels being hung round the pigs necks before the ride in which they were definitely going to die. So you get that sort of strange, i mean, dark humour, which is very ugly on the soviet side. But i managed to view for my book beyond the very last surviving chief animal handler, animal trainer of the soViet dog programme,. A terrifying woman called adelia kotowsk who was in, she was a pure soviet. She was really quite scarig.
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