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The Land They Were Never Meant To Own – Cold War 308 (Cuban Revolution #33)

On this episode we dig into the centrepiece of Cuba's revolution — the Agrarian Reform Act of 1959. We break down exactly what the law said, why even the Cuban Communist Party thought Castro was movin

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That usually takes four to whatever hours. Sometimes more. We’re aware this is unhinged. You’ll come for the geopolitics and stay for the swearing.

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Two guys. Twenty years. A frankly unreasonable number of footnotes.

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EDITOR

History MA. Used to teach. Now reads CIA memoirs in his garage and yells at them. Specialises in Latin America, intelligence ops, and the bit where everyone's lying.

“If your podcast doesn't make you slightly worse at parties, you're doing it wrong.”
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CAM

MASTERMIND

Wrote a thesis on Soviet propaganda nobody has read. Owns more declassified PDFs than is probably legal. Handles the jokes, most of the swearing, and the editing nobody else wants to do.

“Every Cold War story is a love story between two intelligence agencies who hate each other.”
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