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Greetings, comrades, and welcome back.

Welcome back to the frozen edge of the civilized world.

This is the eastern border, and we don't mince words here,

mostly because, well, if you happen to open your mouth a bit too widened, this temperature

that we're having out there, yeah, your teeth shatter. Today? Well, today we're, as usual,

I guess you're used to this by now, looking into the abyss. And the abyss,

it isn't just staring back. Oh no, that would be that easy for my show. No, no, no. It's

wearing a camouflage uniform, waving a pistol, and screaming about betrayal. You know, in the West,

in the West, media often portray Russian war machine as this

unstoppable juggernaut, a terrifying beast.

A bear, if I would put it that way.

That's the traditional picture out there.

But when you read what their own, their own most fanatical supporters are writing,

well, then you get a bit of a different picture.

You don't see a bear, you see a machine that is eating itself alive.

You see a reenactment of a World War I directed by a drunk nihilist,

with some hints of Russo-Japanese war, if I might add,

see, I have here the latest dispatch from the penal colony in Kirovichipetsk, written by the man

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