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We've been doing this for three years, and we figured we would give you time to warm up on your

expertise on the region that you graduated with a doctorate from from Grazni University. I don't

know if that's a school. I assume there's a university in Grazni. I don't dabble in any of this.

I only dabble in Dagestani law. Anyway, we're in part two of the first Chechen war,

and when we left you last time, Russia had finally committed to invading the small breakaway

Republic of Chechnya, formerly known as the Chechen Republic of Itchkaria. But as we kind of

spoke ahead of ourselves at the end of the last episode, things were not that easy. Now for

about seven-ish hours, we already talked about the Soviet army as it was deployed in Afghanistan.

How are you feeling about the capabilities of that military, Nick?

I feel like they're going to look big and scary at first, and then all of a sudden,

it just starts falling apart. Yeah, it's pretty accurate. Rather than retreading that territory,

if you're new to the show or whatever, I highly recommend you go back and listen to it. At least

one or two of the episodes we talked about that, because all of those problems are still there.

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