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Baseball for Russia and postwar hopes in humor
The Army and Navy Journal proposes introducing baseball to Russia to foster goodwill, equip 1,000 teams, and stage a Moscow-Petrograd world series. The piece riffs on potential political fallout, jokes about Stalin and Pravda, and muses on how sports could soften geopolitics while noting practical obstacles and wartime anxieties.
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Army and Navy Journal
Russia
Moscow
Petrograd
Pravda
Molotov
Gromyko