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August 15, 2020 35 mins

Join historian John Lestrange for episode 5 of Genostory: We Agreed to Do This.  In this episode John will go over the Armenian genocide and the historic contexts that allowed it to happen.

Also, as a reminder to everyone listening Black Lives Matter and All Cops are Bastards

Special thanks to the app Hatchful and MJ Bradley for designing and editing out logo.

Show music is "Crusade - Heavy Industry by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License.

Sources:

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