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The magical thinking part is critical to understanding russian prewar strategy, yet the only answer I recall from this podcast is that Stalin did it less than Hitler.

There seemed to be no understanding of how bureaucratic structures work, much less why Magical thinkers would be so successful in a particular one other than people like easy answers. Hopefully these gentleman are better writers than their conversations suggest.

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