The Oh, and welcome to another episode, the lines led by Donkeys Podcasts. I'm Joe, and with me today.

Rick, Nick Nick is rich. Nick no it's Nick her her voice is a little bit a little bit deeper than usual

I don't think I could get that low I definitely I have a high pitched voice. I can try and I just sound like a

dumber version of me. But yeah I'm here with Rich today. I got Nick and the like of the podcast dog in the room today.

Also wearing my Like a T-shirt that I got.

That is a Soviet propaganda poster.

You know it was funny, Rich and I went to a Bernie Sanders rally in Tacoma a couple weeks ago and it was the same day these shirts came in.

And I'm like, fuck yeah, I cannot wait to wear the shirt.

And I realized like, I probably should not wear a Soviet Union propaganda poster

to a political rally.

Like, this will probably not go over great. They might even turn me away at the door.

So I did not.

But last week, how'd you feel about part one of Napoleon's invasion of Russia?

Do we get to the war now? We do kind of.

So you remember way back during the Soviet Afghan war series how I made an entire episode based on the life and time of the soldiers fighting in the war.

This is this episode. Now I have a Soviet soldier way way back. Well we do talk

about the Imperial Russian Army which I will leave it up to you if their

existence is worse than the Red Army.

We'll compare and contrast there.

Let's do it.

But when we left you on the last,

and actually before we go into that,

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