Episode 4 - The House Built Out of Dead Nazis

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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On this episode of the Lions Led by Donkeys we talk about Sergeant Yakov Pavlov and his Soviet House of Death during the Battle of Stalingrad. Nick chugs Vodka to keep his horrible illness at bay long enough to record, we decide that the glorious Soviet Union would never lie in battle reports, and come to the conclusion that the Wermach was little more than Star Trek Red Shirts at this point of the war. Follow the Podcast on twitter Follow Joe on Twitter Follow Nick on Twitter

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0:00.0	S Hello and welcome to another episode of the Lions led by Donkeys podcast.
0:17.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Lions led by Donkeys podcast. I'm Joe and that is my
0:25.1	glorious comrade Nick and if you couldn't tell from our... and if you couldn't tell from
0:29.7	our intro we are talking about Soviet Russia today. More, exactly, we're talking about World War II
0:36.4	Soviet Russia in the Battle of Stalingrad. And the best Russia. It is, the glorious Soviet socialist republic of and we're talking about the house that Pavlov built
0:48.4	If you guys haven't heard the story it's pretty insane and it doesn't actually make a whole lot of sense. So today's story
0:57.2	brings us back to World War II to the to the horrible eastern front and if that
1:01.4	wasn't depressing enough we're going to focus on the Battle of Stalingrad,
1:04.0	a battle that would include nearly 2.2 million personnel at its peak, killer wound around 2 million people,
1:09.2	and is considering the largest and most bloodiest battles in the history of warfare entirely.
1:14.0	So it's not going to be as happy and cheerful as last week's.
1:18.0	But if we get names wrong?
1:20.0	We're going to try.
1:21.0	We're going to try.
1:22.0	We're going to try. We're going to try. Yeah, you know, we're...
1:24.0	Russian names, backward ours, weird shit going on.
1:28.0	And we did read Pavlov's biography, or his memoir rather rather that is all entirely in Russian so we read it via
1:36.2	Google Translate and it is not the way to read anything ever because it sounded like Pavlov had a pretty mean brain injury
1:45.8	at Stalingrad or Google Translate for like shit.
1:48.7	Yeah he probably had like a baker's dozens of fucking brain injuries.
1:53.0	Even before then.
1:55.0	Yeah.
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