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Did perestroika really disolver the Soviet Union, or was it gonna disolve anyways?	47
How come "Canadian Druglords/Cartels" never popped up to supply the huge US drug demmand?	46
Besides escaping to West Berlin and passing thru the wall, was there another way to escape to west Germany besides Berlin? Could you enter from the actual East-West border (the one that divided the countries)	42
Anne Frank mentioned in her diary she listened often the BBC on her family radio. The Netherlands was occupied by Germany during WWII, how did the signal arrived all the way to the annex? Did the BBC set up clandestine stations?	40
How was Pablo Escobar able to visit Washington DC? How did he get a visa in the first place? How did customs and immigration let him in?	39
West Berlin was an enclave from west Germany deep inside East Germany, and for practical purposes it more or less worked like an island from a logistics perspective, how did that impact daily life?	21
Before the equal rights act, were black/brown leaders, ambassadors and representatives allowed at the UN HQ or other buildings? Did US segregation law applied in the UN?	19
In the days of the witch trials and hunts, were women really sent to trial for anything? Was there a legal defense she could use?	18
How did the university of Chicago react to the “Chicago Boys” and the military dictatorship of Pinochet? Did they know about their plans? Was an official statement made? Were they complicit? Did they HELP?	15
At some point during the US Civil war (and probably before) Mexico gave citizenship to every slave that scaled the south. Did that bother or even concerned the north?	14

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