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

This episode, by the way, is brought you by russ and sov.com.

That's a store, an online store, that sells t-shirts and posters and mugs and everything connected with Russia and Soviet Union. They really don't do just the

cliche stuff, although they have some great, excellent even propaganda posters,

like the one they sent to me, which says more steel and more weapons.

What they do have is a lot of, if you're into architecture or the abstract art of the

1920s, they have that too. They are an excellent source of everything, and just like with

everything else, if you go to my website, theeasternborder.l.v, and click on the banner, on the

right side there, and just follow that link and buy stuff, then you'll get a 10% discount.

Or if you enter Eastern Border, I think the first the letter is

capitalized, Eastern Border, one word, at your checkout, you'll get a 10% discount, and

they'll send some percentage of the money my way. They're not a big chain or anything. They

found me, and they've been sending me stuff. They sent me an Eastern

border t-shirt with our awesome art and they sent me the poster and it's amazing and

well, I hope you go check them out. Rousansoft.com. They're great. We're going to continue

working with them in the future. Next episode is going to be about the KV tank,

but right now I do have to touch on some political subjects.

Because, well,

now that my case is something that we all care about here on the eastern border.

And that's something that I think should be mentioned first. So let's get

on with it. On February 2nd, during a hearing that determined Navalny's fate, which means that he

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