Episode 2 – The Soviet Army
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.7 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2015
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Greetings, Tovarischi! This episode is about the Soviet army, it’s military might and the trials and tribulations of the common soldier – as heard from those very common soldiers. (And, of course, historical background and information on this as well.) Leave your comments below, and don’t forget to tell everyone about this podcast.
Also, I recommend you to go and listen to the Naval History Podcast, by Buckner F. Melton jr. because that podcast really deserves more attention. You can do that here: http://navalhistorypodcast.com/
And to make the lawyers happy: The intro music is a fragment from “My Army” by the Red Army Choir, and the epilogue is from “She thinks herself immortal” by Jim Rooster, used under the Creative Commons licence.
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| 1:01.8 | Before we start, I would like to apologize for taking so long with this episode. |
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| 1:16.1 | Without further delay then, episode 2, the Red Army. |
| 1:22.5 | There was a popular humoristic radio show in the 70s and the late 60s in the Soviet Union. |
| 1:28.5 | It was called the Armenian Radio. It was ran from Moscow, but got retransmitted throughout |
| 1:33.8 | the Soviet Union. It was very good, as the people tell me. It had this segment when you could |
| 1:40.4 | just call into the show and ask some sort of a question. Well, obviously nobody asked political questions or anything about the military, |
| 1:47.5 | because, you know, prison, not fun. |
| 1:50.8 | But it was also a subject of a lot of jokes, |
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