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In 1980 Iraqi mechanized forces using blitzkrieg style tactics, less air power, invaded an unprepared Iran. How Iran managed to mobilize and gain the upper hand is explained. The events leading up to and continuing in the War of the Cities and finally the Tanker War that motivated the world's super powers to intervene and eventually end the war are described. Finally, with it's oil industry devastated but with a massive military Iraq turns on Kuwaitt to seize it's oil field for Iraqi exploitation.

Bucharest's Casa Poporului, or People's Palace, is a colossal monolith and the grand legacy of Romania's infamous dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.