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

Sorry for taking so long, but it's December, and that means, well, I have to touch a subject that I haven't touched before, the Decemberists.

The reason it took so long to make is because credit where credits do, Mike Duncan already has an episode on this in his Revolution series, so, you know, after listening to that

episode like a billion times, I had to figure out a way how to add to that one, because

a lot of people who listen to my show

probably listen to revolutions as well, so if I just repeat what he has said, then that

wouldn't be as fun now, wouldn't it? The same way I think he'll kind of treat the Lenin stuff,

at least I hope so, because that is why, you know, he's doing the factual stuff more, and

I'm doing the ideological and political stuff in these whole Lenin series.

If you haven't listened to them, go do so now, because I did my own revolution there.

However, Decembrists are an interesting point in Russian history, and it's December again, and this is why I'd like to talk about them.

Specifically, because they also recently saw a movie made by today's Russian cinema,

which was given funding by the Russian kind of state,

because Russian Ministry of Culture often finances Russian movies if they pass the script tests, and a lot of them are pure garbage.

If you watch, was it, Rosophiles Unite, the Russian movie, the podcast, if you listen to that movie podcast,

then you would know about such classics as the Caucasus Prisoner and the Adventures of Shudik and whatnot.

They have made a lot of sequels in recent years, also funded by the state government,

and they're all trash.

They're like literally scene for scene reshoots and it's torment to watch them, and it's just awful.

Now, the thing is that they made a movie called The Union of Salvation, and what that is,

well, I'll tell you just in a minute or so, but they made a movie about Decembrists recently,

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