HIST 105: FINAL EXAM
87 Cards in this Set
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What happened on may 8, 1945?
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The end of WWII
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How did Rev. Waszkinel survive the Holocaust?
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His birth mother gave him to his adoptive mother. She met her in the Ghetto where she would go to feed the people who lived there.
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What is the historical meaning of the title-" Night and Fog"?
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The Germans were secretly moving the Jewish people to the camps.
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What is the name of the camp featured in the film Night and Fog, most prominently?
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Auschwitz
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What does "Arbeit Mache Frei" mean in English?
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Work makes you free
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What warning does the film night and fog, give you in the end?
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That this will and can happen again. History repeats itself.
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What where the Nuremberg laws of 1935?
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That Jewish people could not be lawyers, doctors, or work for the government.
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In the pianist, what happened to the German officer in 1952?
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He died in a soviet union POW camp.
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Who where the insurgent who mounted the ghetto uprising of 1943?
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The Jewish resistance
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How many polish civilians died during the Warsaw Uprising?
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150,000-200,000
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Who helps and who hinders Szpilman as he tries to survive outside the ghetto BEFORE the German officers incident?
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The polish couple, his musician friends helped him. The technician who was suppose to keep an eye on him and bring him food, kept the money for himself and left him to starve. The woman who heard him break the plates in the apartment tried to turn him in.
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Why did the Nazis torch the city of Warsaw in 1944?
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Out of spite, no one else was living there.
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How did Polanski survive world war II?
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He escaped and stayed/hid out in a barn.
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What was Spzilman's profession?
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A pianist
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In the pianist, which army liberated Poland from Nazi occupation?
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Soviet union
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In what country of Europe does the film "life is beautiful" take place?
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Italy
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How does the "princess" get into the box car of the transport train?
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She keeps demanding to get on the train until he lets her on.
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Describe the racial laws of September 18, 1938?
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The Jews were not allowed to marry non Jews, go to school, be involved with the military or government.
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What happened to Guido at the end of "life is beautiful"?
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He was shot
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What was the "princess's" occupation?
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She was a teacher.
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In life is beautiful, who rescues the boys and takes him out of the camp?
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A U.S. soldier
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What is the prize for winning the game that Guido invents?
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A real tank.
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Who endorsed the Manifesto of Race?
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Benito Mussilini
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How does Guido rescue Dora from marrying the man she dislikes?
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At the party where they announce their engagement, he takes the horse Robin Hood in the building and takes her away.
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In goodbye children, what is Joseph's justification for betraying the Jewish students?
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He was mad because he was the only one who got in trouble for stealing lard and selling it on the black market. He also felt it was no big deal , they were just Jews.
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When did German invade France?
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1940
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Why is Joseph the kitchen boy fired in goodbye children?
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He was stealing lard and selling it on the black market.
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In goodbye children, how has the protagonist grown?
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He was a spoiled, crybaby in the beginning. He then realized the complexity of the world and actually started to care for others not just himself.
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What is heroic about father Jean?
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He took in 3 Jewish boys and one man. By doing this, he was risking his own life. If he was caught he would be killed.
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In goodbye children, who is Jean Bonnet?
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He is a Jewish boy trying to survive by pretending he is protestant.
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What is the meaning of the term "collabo"?
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It means collaboration. This term means an active support for the German occupation forces in WWII.
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Who among Korczak's orphans heading for the Ghetto is saved from sharing their fate?
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Pala
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What did Korczak plan to do after the war?
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Open a German orphanage
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When Korczak says," they betrayed us(in September 1939)," to which nations is he referring?
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England and France
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In Korczak, who is Henryk Goldszmit?
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The doctor the film was based off of.
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n Korczak, who was the Jedenrat?
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The Jewish authority
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What kind of help did Korczak seek from the Jewish collaboration and why?
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He sought money from them so he could by food for his orphans.
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Korczak explains why he selected a play to be performed by the children. What was his reason for selecting this particular play?
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He showed them to prepare them for their own death. He wanted to show them that death can be gentle and without pain.
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What is Denaturalization?
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The taking away of someone's citizenship.
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What was the Hungarian Arrow Cross?
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A group of Hungarians that killed and tormented Jewish people.
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For what reason is Mike Laszlo's US citizenship in danger of being revoked?
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He was being accused of war crimes.
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In what US city does the story of the Music Box begin?
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Chicago
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Why does Laszlo refuse to travel to Budapest?
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He said he would be assassinated by the communists because he is an anti communist.
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What is "Mishka" relationship to Mike Laszlo, according to Jack Burke?
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They are the same person.
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What was the soviet block?
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A group of Soviet controlled satellite states that lasted from WWII till 1991
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Who and why is exposing Mike Laszlo as a war criminal at the end?
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His daughter, Anna, because she found the pictures that Tibor had in the music box.
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The mother of Solly's girlfriend promises not to do what?
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betray him by telling anyone he is a Jew
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What lesson in survival, if any, does the film, Europa Europa, teach?
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I think is showed the internal and external struggle of trying to survive. He was always on alert and had to stay on his toes.
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Why is Solly so valuable to the Nazis?
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He can speak Russian , German, and Polish
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Who is Leni?
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Josef girlfriend
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As a "Hitler youth", Solly attends lectures on what unpleasant topic?
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How to recognize a Jew.
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After Solly's sisters death, where does the Perel family go?
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Poland
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Who killed Solly Perel?
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No one. If anyone he had to kill who he really was in order to survive.
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Who is Josef Peters?
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Solly
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In what country does Perel family live when the story begins?
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Germany
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What does the cross symbolize?
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Christianity
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What does the star of David symbolize?
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Jewish faith
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What does the cross inscribed in the star of David symbolize?
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Acceptance of his Jewish background and the Christianity he grew up in.
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Was night and fog shot in color or black and white?
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both
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What is zyklon-B
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Gas used for the chambers
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How were the prisoners brought to camp?
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train
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How does Julian find out that jean bonnet is Jewish?
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He does through his locker and finds a book with his name on it, he won't he pork, and he hears him praying in the middle of the night.
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Who is the protagonist of goodbye children?
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Julian Quentin
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When and why do Julien and jean bond?
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When they were lost in the woods, over the stories Julian told about there adventures, they played the piano together
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Why are some parents offended by father jeans sermon?
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He wants the rich to give more money to those who need it. Used scripture to back it up called them arrogant
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What happened at the fancy restaurant on parents day
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French collaborator came in and tried to kick out a Jewish man. German soldiers told him to get out he was interrupting their meal and they were also showing off in front of Julien's mother
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What happened to father jean and the three Jewish boys after their arrest?
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They died in camps the boys were sent to Auschwitz, =father to a German camp
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When the boys call out "until we see you again father" what message are they sending?
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They said it together for the first time they were unified.
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What capital city does the pianist take place?
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warsaw
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What year does wwII start
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1939 in poland
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What caused the szpilman family to be removed from their home?
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They were being moved to the ghetto
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How many Jews where confined to the ghetto in the initial relocation?
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400,000
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In August 1942 where is the szpilman family forcibly taken
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treblinka
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Why does the SS police execute 6 men?
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To install fear
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Why is szpilman moved to work in a store outside of the ghetto?
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He wasn't strong enough to last in the ghetto
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Who are the first people to hid szpilman after he runs away
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The polish couple involved in the resistance
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Who are the insurgents in the second uprising in this city during which szpilmans hideout is bombed?
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Polish resistance
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Why so the liberators nearly kill szpilman?
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He was wearing a German officers coat
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What is the first name of the princess?
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Dora
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What political movement is in place in guides country? How do we know?
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Rise of fascism, the inspector going to the school to talk about the superior race, the saluting in the beginning, the painting of robin hood
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Which Aryan prejudice does Guido spoof when he is on the table at the school?
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Racial superiority of italians
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What evidence initially links mike Lazlo to tibor?
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He gave him large payments, they felt he was being blackmailed
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At the hearing an FBI agent confirms that miklos was a member of the infamous Hungarian arrow cross, a Nazi collaboration party. How does he try to defend himself?
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He said he was only a clerk. He never participated and the document are forged.
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How does Ann discredit the evidence of her fathers membership in the arrow cross?
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The witnesses sent from the Hungarian government collaborated their stories with each other.
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What causes Ann to travel to Budapest?
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A witness for the prosecution who couldn't travel for health reasons who could identify miscka .
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Whose address did Anns assistance give to her to visit in Budapest?
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Tibors sister Melinda
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In her Budapest hotel, Ann is visited by someone who reveals an important fact about miscka, what?
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The witness had already identified 4 other men a Mishka.
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