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To everyone involved at some point in this debate: I would recommend reading the book Tobacco by Dimiter Dimov, a Bulgarian writer. It is set in the period between 1935 and 1946 (or thereabouts). The book explores the lives of many different characters, workers, partizans, socialists, communists, regular farmhands but also their enemies, a girl and a boy, risen from the ground to become owners of Nicotiana (a large tobacco company in southern Bulgaria), other entrepreneurs, clerks, agents of the police, a senior sergeant of the police force and so many others. A truly magnificent work in two volumes. A stirring piece, interesting for all. It gives an accurate depiction of predatory capitalism.