"A nation for a nation"

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sources:

https://apnews.com/article/tel-aviv-international-news-israel-ap-top-news-69cb4cdfab7d416a968b95aef87d18c1

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-an-eye-for-an-eye-jews-who-sought-to-kill-germans-in-revenge-for-the-holocaust-1.8094962

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/26/second.world.war

Lang, Berel (1996). "Holocaust Memory and Revenge: The Presence of the Past". Jewish Social Studies

Monte becomes one of the greatest military commanders in Armenian history.

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Monte joins the Armenian Secret Army and sets off on an international mission of "armed propaganda"

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The story of how a regular kid from a California suburb ended up as a military hero of Armenia.

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Melkonian, Markar. My Brother's Road: An American's Fateful Journey to Armenia

At the end of WWII a group of French POWs went looking for help and ended up taking part in one of the weirdest battles in military history.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32622651

https://www.historynet.com/the-battle-for-castle-itter.htm

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/itter-castle-strangest-battle-world-war-ii-152721

When the nazis stormed into Poland at the opening stages of World War II it was not soldiers, trench lines, or pill boxes that they had to conquer first. Instead, it was the Danzig Post Office.

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https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/employees-danzig-post-office-fought-germans-15-hours-invasion-poland-captured

htmlhttps://libcom.org/history/defence-polish-post-office-danzig

https://web.archive.org/web/20060502021616/http://www.1939.pl/epizody/poczta_gdansk.htm

Rwanda invades Congo using a fleet of hijacked planes to spark the Second Congo War.

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https://warisboring.com/bomb-the-other-side-of-the-runway/

https://www.economist.com/international/1998/09/03/heading-for-an-african-war

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1998/08/25/angola-sends-thousands-of-troops-to-back-kabila/c5da7c99-0f4a-469a-8a32-a74d46b79a0d/

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/10/world/pilot-s-account-seems-to-confirm-rwanda-role-in-congo-strife.html

A group of nazis, KKK, and gangsters Voltron together to come up with the dumbest attempted invasion in American history.

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Bell, Stewart. The Bayou of Pigs

http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/ron-paul-was-implicated-in-attempted-white-supremacist-island-invasion/

Eugene Debs organizes the working class and fights back against American entry into WWI.

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fiery-socialist-challenged-nations-role-wwi-180969386/

https://debsfoundation.org/index.php/landing/debs-biography/

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/wilson-eugene-debs/

South Korea starts an assassination squad made out of petty criminals and dudes who look kind of in shape. Hilarity does not ensue.

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https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/18/asia/south-korea-failed-assassination-squad-unit-684-intl/index.html

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20050824000044

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/world/south-korean-movie-unlocks-door-on-a-once-secret-past.html