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6 Enlightened Ideas from Evil Empires

Friday, February 26th, 2010 – running time 05:09
Hitler had a 25 cigarette a day habit. He realized that it's bad and messing up his health, so he put a ban on cigarettes for Nazis. Yes, Nazis are bad and we love shooting them in video games, but they are the ones that started the public anti-smoking stance. So, if history teaches us anything, it's that it's way harder to pick out the good guys from the bad guys than the movies would lead us to believe. In fact, some of history's most face-blastingly savage regimes came up with some shockingly progressive innovations in health, human rights and, well, everything else.