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The cigar: the eternal story of wealth and poverty.

A little over a year ago has caused a great stir the news of the auction sale of a halfsmoked cigar - to talk about the accuracy of 9.5 cm-rolling tobacco - belonged to Winston Churchill, resident historian of # 10 Downing Street. In fact, the news is just that half a cigar, smoked and then only in part by the British Prime Minister and auctioned at the modest sum of € 5.200, is linked to an important historical event: the

Nazis were about to arrive in Leningrad at at August 22, 1941, just as Churchill smoked blissfully one of his famous cigars, and he - ironically and history - had to gather immediately the War Cabinet, abandoning his "traveling companion" in an ashtray. "Dad always ended his cigars "-

said the daughter of the Premier of the auction close -" the fact that he gave to the story  those 9.5 cm means that something very important was happening. "

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