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This is all we can do for you now (thelemmy.club)
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[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 43 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

It’s probably related to this possibly apocryphal story:

One shell, however, wasn’t quite empty. Inside the casing was “a carefully rolled piece of paper” written in Czech, he noted. “This is all we can do for you now,” the message read.

And here is an AskHistorians Reddit link with some additional context.

this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2026
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