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I suppose that a reasonable number of us are familiar with the May 15 Incident of 1932 and that a significant subset thereof are aware that the assassins originally intended to murder Charlie Chaplin as part of this plot.

Their subsequent justification for this was as follows:

'Chaplin is a popular figure in the United States and the darling
of the capitalist class. We believed that killing him would cause a war
with America, and thus we could kill two birds with a single stone.'


While their intended outcome was unlikely, suppose that the original plot had been followed through upon. What follows?
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