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Woo!

The USA.

Music Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the Eastern Border.

This is the historical part of this week's episodes, I suppose, because we're doing two.

I asked on Twitter whether or not I should do Belarus or history, and, uh, well, Twitter

voted for history.

Meanwhile, Facebook, with a vast majority, I kind of asked for Belarus.

So, I just had to take some time off and do both, I suppose.

And this is also a specific episode since, well, we are returning to the Stalin

series. Not in a nice way, though, mind you. Stalin series were always among the darkest of every

episode I've ever done. Ask Uncle Joe segment, nonwithstanding. However, this month is

Holodomor Memorial Month in Ukraine, and I think that this would be a nice restart, reboot, so to speak,

of all the things that Stalin did after coming to power.

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