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Oh yes.

Woo!

The USA.

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

I wanted to end this month on a more positive note.

First of all, thank you for all the greetings and everything and all that you've done for me

and for all the helpful messages that I've received on Facebook and Twitter.

But I wanted to do something historical again because, well, Belarus and Russia are getting extremely shady again,

so we'll get back to them next month, but I want to move on with our Russian-Alaska story, and hopefully we'll get back to them next month, but I want to move on with our Russian Alaska story,

and hopefully we can move through eastern Siberia this time,

because, well, actually, the Western Siberia took a way longer time than the eastern parts did,

so it's time to get them through, celebrate Catherine the Great a bit.

Maybe I should devote a whole episode to her. I'll think about that in the future, maybe,

because that will also involve Crimea and Potomkin's conquests, and I lost half of the recordings

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