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"ref": "2013 December 25, Martin Kettle, “What if the Germans had won the first world war?”, in The Guardian",
"text": "More recently, a succession of novels, including Robert Harris's Fatherland, Resistance by Owen Sheers and CJ Sansom's Dominion – which imagines a Vichy Britain in 1952 ruled by Lord Beaverbrook and Oswald Mosley – have explored the same theme.",
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"ref": "2015, Jonathan D. Smele, “Miliukov, Pavel Nikolaevich”, in Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916–1926, page 755",
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"ref": "2022 March 2, Peter Weber, “U.S. and Britain reportedly believe the Ukraine war could last 10-20 years, become a Russian quagmire”, in The Week",
"text": "\"There is not going to be a Vichy Ukraine,\" former U.S. Ukraine Ambassador John Herbst told the Post.",
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