Episode 4 – Brezhnev in Spring
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.7 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2015
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
We’re back with a vengeance! And small land and medals, and spring. In Prague! In all seriousness, I had some serious health issues, so I wasn’t able to make the episode in time, but I promise that such things will not happen in the future. I have to add that I made a small mistake in the episode, Daugavpils is in the south-eastern part of Latvia, not in the southern part. Well, it IS in the south, but it’s also very to the east, so I should add that. To add to your listening experience, here’s a picture of what happened in Prague, 1968:
Soviet invasion and protests in Prague, 1968Also, this time’s recommendation is Wittenberg to Westphalia: The wars of the reformation podcast. It is awesome, and you should pay them a visit, if you care about what and when happened during the reformation in Europe. Link: wittenbergtowestphaliapodcast.weebly.com
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| 1:07.1 | Thank you. Greetings, Tovarish, it has been a while, but we are back at the eastern border. |
| 1:13.2 | This time, literally, as I'm recording this in my dad's place, which is in a small town called Luzza in the very eastern fringes of Latvia, so I apologize for the sound |
| 1:18.9 | quality beforehand, as this is done on a laptop. As promised before, this episode will focus |
| 1:25.2 | on Leonid Ilyz Brezhnev, the Soviet leader about whom the most political jokes were made. |
| 1:31.7 | Here's one for you. |
| 1:33.0 | Brezhnev finds out that the Americans have gone to the moon. |
| 1:36.8 | He says to his advisor, |
| 1:38.4 | We must beat them. |
| 1:39.8 | Let's launch an expedition to the sun. |
| 1:42.6 | But, Tavarech Brezhnev, they'll all burn to death. |
| 1:46.7 | The advisor responds. |
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