And so they have this-- and Bismarck had predicted that the siege the whole thing would be over.

他们吃的就是这个,俾斯麦预言道,巴黎城就将不攻自破

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This is 1889, under the government of Otto von Bismarck-- although, he has nothing to do with this, it was other people--economists in Germany that invented this idea.

889年时，当时俾斯麦执政德国-,他和这事儿没多大关系，这是由德国的经济学家,想出了这个主意。

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