Ben Gilbert: belief

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…They literally made it illegal to sell, buy any shortwave capable radios that consumers had. They had to take out components that received short waves. I think a lot of it was the government officials who were coming around to modify the radios were just clipping wires. Some of it was modifying components, removing it, but other ones, they just go in and be like oh yeah, there it is. Ibuka though is like, sure, whatever. You can clip as many wires on my wires as you want. I'm just going to keep making my own shortwave radio. He knows though that he can listen to transmissions from the allies and others. He knows that despite what the government is saying in 1944, the war is not going well for Japan.…

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