Great Game Vol. 2.0 - Part 1
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.6 • 879 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2018
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Greetings, Comrades!
This episode started with one of our oldest fans, Dave, sending us a book, “Setting the East Ablaze” by Peter Hopkirk. It was about the struggle between Lenin and Bolsheviks and Great Britain about the influence in the east, especially in India. Then, while doing this month’s episodes about Putin and everything, I decided that the book had only English and Russian perspectives, but no Indian ones, and then I googled and researched, and…oh boy, it grew and grew and now I have a whole new aspect of the Eastern Border show that I’ll try to cover. Enjoy!
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| 0:15.8 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by, on track to your destination. |
| 0:27.3 | Not a care in the world as you simply lean back. |
| 0:32.3 | And before you know it, you're there. |
| 0:35.2 | This is how travels should feel. |
| 0:38.7 | And on our trains it does |
| 0:39.7 | Avanti West Coast |
| 0:41.6 | feel good travel |
| 0:43.5 | greetings |
| 0:48.0 | this episode as is by now |
| 0:50.6 | pretty normal for our show |
| 0:51.9 | turned out a bit different than expected |
| 0:53.6 | I wanted to just do a nice little show about the, how I call it, the great game volume 2 |
| 1:00.0 | between Lenin and Bolsheviks and the British, which involved India, you know, in the Afghanistan and Indian region in the 20s, |
| 1:08.0 | as this plays out nicely in our Stalin series. But now we might go |
| 1:13.1 | further. I even think this might turn into a two-parter because of all the things that are going on. |
| 1:18.2 | And yes, some extras for this subject when we will get there will be in the Stalin episodes |
| 1:21.9 | normally. But you see, I just love to tie things together. For one, while looking up this, I found some articles. |
| 1:29.6 | One of them, in the 6th of March, appeared in freepost.com, which is an Indian news site in English. |
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