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"Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam."
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"After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields."
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