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The Eastern Border

IS tanks – Stalin of Steel

The Eastern Border

Kristaps Andrejsons

Cold War, Politics, Soviet, Society & Culture, History, Ussr, News

4.6851 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Greetings, Comrades! This time, from a cow farm. But that doesn’t stop me, so have another tank episode, this time about the Iosif Stalin tank series, the first “shot” of the cold war!

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0:00.0

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0:29.1

Thank you. Greetings, comrades, and, uh... I'm saying you this because, uh, welcome to eastern border, slightly more western

0:35.5

than usual, because, due to how my moving interactions happened,

0:41.5

well, it so happened that I was supposed to move at the middle of March, right?

0:46.7

And I had everything set up with my new landlord and everything.

0:51.1

Except that at the very last day, I got thrown up and kind of cheated by stating that,

0:59.0

well, no, my wife says you can't really just yet move in.

1:02.3

You have to wait until the end of March to move.

1:05.1

And, yeah, ended up pretty bad because old landlady demanded that we move out.

1:14.1

And the new landlady stated that we can't move in.

1:17.2

So thanks to my buddy, Carlos Rotkowski, who literally saved my ass, he called his dad,

1:24.6

who owns a huge, by Latvian standards with about 160 cows farm in about the

1:33.6

center of Latvia in the region of Valmira.

1:36.4

And, well, the good news is that I have a place to wait until I get back to a permanent

1:42.6

location.

1:44.0

Secondly, my audio setup is again terribly, terribly ruined by everything.

1:49.2

And I had to do weird stuff to make all this work.

1:54.0

And finally, is that so that I don't have to pay for this location?

1:57.9

I am now working as a farmhand with cows. And I have never, never, ever

2:03.6

done that really, not on the scale that I'm supposed to do that now. And do you know that if you

2:09.7

go to a box of cows and literally shovel the shit out manually and put in fresh hay, then, well,

2:16.7

that kind of back-breaking labor,

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