Potsdam
About Potsdam
Potsdam is the capital and largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of Berlin, and lies embedded in a hilly morainic landscape dotted with many lakes, around 20 of which are located within Potsdam's city limits. It lies some 25 kilometres southwest of Berlin's city centre. The name of the city and of many of its boroughs are of Slavic origin.
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They were deciding what the deal was and how the world was going to look and the shape of Europe and the idea of the United Nations, all of this stuff. There was Tehran and there was Yalta and Potsdam, and goldfish were a bit of a feature of the Yalta conference, certainly. There was a huge amount of buggery, bugging taking place.
from No Such Thing As Tibetan Traitors, 2026-09-24 at 00:31:04 · read transcript
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We should have beaten him with like a peace treaty? Or like in the War of the Worlds, where the aliens catch the common cold. Do you think Godzilla would have been as popular amongst like 10 to 15 year old boys if the second half of the film had been like a Potsdam round the table peace treaty shaft? Or just a load of people tried to sneeze on him.
12: No Such Thing As A 164ft Tall Gorilla-Whale, 2014-05-24 · listen
They did do a lot of that to Eastern Europe, I would say. Everyone was being bugged all the time, because Yalta was taking place on the Black Sea and Potsdam in Germany, but the Black Sea one, which was, you know, the Stalin-hosted one, as it were, Yalta, at one point, a British official called Charles Portal,.
No Such Thing As Tibetan Traitors, 2026-09-24 · listen
Hear me out. Invading Russia, cop. Something I didn't know about Potsdam. Potsdam, a bit confusing for Stalin because Roosevelt has died.
No Such Thing As Tibetan Traitors, 2026-09-24 · listen
Also, I hadn't realised that the British election happened in the middle of Potsdam, so Churchill had to fly home and be replaced by Attlee.
No Such Thing As Tibetan Traitors, 2026-09-24 · listen
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