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TIL the concept of sister cities originated in WW2 as a way of establishing solidarity between allied cities that had been devastated by fighting and air raids. The first 'twinned' cities were Coventry, England and Stalingrad in the Soviet Union in 1942 as both were extensively destroyed in the war

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