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Thank you. Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the eastern border.

This time, we're going to talk about kids.

Very specific kids.

Unaramia kids.

See, these are technically the successors of the Soviet Union's pioneer organization,

except these are related to modern Russia.

Nothing to do with the cadets, which are just military professional schools for teenagers.

This is somewhat different organization, although, well, as you can tell from the name itself,

Yule Armia, or the Army of Youth, it's still pretty militaristic.

We'll delve into the history and the meaning of all this whole project, and we'll look at the weirdest aspects

of its existence and how it came to be and everything like that, and the meaning of it

up until today. Before we start, though, I would like to still recommend anyone who

enjoys the show to visit our homepage, Deasternboard.org, and if you want to support us, you can click on the donate button there,

or you can go to russensov.com,

who still continue to talk and work with us,

and, well, click on the banner there on our homepage

and get a 10% discount for all your Soviet souvenir needs.

Or, you know, you can just email us and send us some support

or become a Patreon and email us anyway, because then once I get out of this farm,

which I'm pretty used to at this point, it's been a month, and, well, I feel physically

stronger and healthier, which just kind of shows that this whole everyday

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