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Thank you. Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the eastern border. As I'm still in the farm, I wanted to make something, you know, interesting and nice and animal related.

And this led me to an episode where I have to start by informing you guys that this might

well be traumatic to some people and that this episode is not kid-friendly.

A few of my are, I think, but this is definitely not one of those.

This is quite a dark one. And it's about animals in the Soviet Union, yes. I won't be going

into detail about Pavlov, mind you.

I specifically went out of my way not to get into Pavlov's experiments and whatnot,

because I think I've done an interview with someone,

and it's one of the past episodes of the show.

So no, Pavlov here, but the rest of the stuff is in itself quite interesting and there are quite a few stories about animals that kind of need to be told here. Before that though, remember to visit

russentsov.com and use our promo code Eastern Border at the checkout to get your 10% discount,

or just click on the banner in our web page, theeasternborder.L.V.

And, you know, you can get all sorts of cool Soviet stuff there and Soviet and avant-garde and everything.

It's not just, you know, Soviet-e-Himer andle, everything. And we'll also be shipping off some of our own

t-shirts with our own art soon. And finally, yeah, you can also support the show because,

you know, as I said in the previous episode up until the end of this month, I'm on a farm

and I'll be moving. That'll be expensive, obviously. Yeah, you can just

click the donate button on the eastern border.LV or become our patron at patreon.com slash

the eastern border and we will be extremely thankful for that. But yeah, let's talk about how,

how and why the Soviets used animals for the glory of communism, to build communism.

And in my first case, which I want to mention, and which is one of the least known events out of all of this, quite literally.

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