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

And this time we're going to be talking about Kursk, not the tank battle.

I spoke some time ago about the tank battle in the T-34 episode. No, no, no.

The submarine Kursk. The one that sank on August the 12th, it's recovered since then and everything.

But I recently watched a Russian kind of a pseudo-documentary.

And they basically took some guy who had participated in these, you know, psychic challenges,

battles of the extrasences and everything like that.

And they had like taken him on a boat and like drove all over just outside the coast of the Kola Peninsula east of Murmansk there and where the course was located. And he psychically really kind of tried hard to put on the

fact that it must have been an American NATO torpedo that had crushed it.

And that kind of falls in line with everything going on with, you know,

blame the Americans for everything, obviously, in Russia.

But even at the time, it's not the only conspiracy.

There is also these theories that an American submarine had actually collided with Korsk and many others, and there were so

many conspiracies, and as it happened, it was just crazy. So here I am, and I will try to

bring you the whole story and the reasoning why did the kursk sink and why well

bumbling and unreadiness of then very kind of new russian president vladimir putin

he had been just very recently in power by that point in year 2000.

Wow, it's been a long time really now.

Why his answers and how his reactions really shocked everyone and maybe we should have known back then what Putin would do.

Because I remember him saying in an interview to an American journalist in live television,

when asked what happened to Kursk, he just smiled and said,

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