Tukhachevsky and the BT’s
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.6 • 851 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Greetings, Comrades! Today’s episode is all about the BT tanks and the insane, neo-pagan, kind-of-a-bolshevik madman, Red Army Marshall who was behind their introduction in the USSR military forces. Spoilers: He was shot by Stalin in a show trial, but not because of Perun. Perun plays a huge part in this. Enjoy this surprisingly weird story, Comrades! Happiness is Mandatory!
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| 0:28.9 | Thank you. Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the eastern border. |
| 0:37.1 | Before we begin, I have to say that this episode is being recorded on the Victims of Commun communism Memorial Day in Latvia. |
| 0:47.2 | March 25th was when in 1949 in the Operation Coastal Wave by the KGB and their military supporters in the Baltics, a lot of people and families were deported to distant regions of Siberia, |
| 0:55.3 | entrainmen for cattle, |
| 1:01.6 | theradious work camps, gulags, and uninhabited places to build settlements. |
| 1:06.8 | 28.6% of all the deported were children under the age of 16. |
| 1:10.6 | According to the secret party decision about this operation, which was written in January 29th of the same year in 1949, |
| 1:16.0 | there were four main groups that were targeted for deportation. |
| 1:20.2 | Firstly, Kulaks and their families. |
| 1:23.1 | That is, any farmer that owned more than two cows in his homestead and or used hired labor on their farm in any form, seasonal or otherwise. |
| 1:33.3 | Secondly, families of the resistance movement members, including families of those who had been shot or senticulogs previously. |
| 1:42.3 | Yes, the so-called Fortis brothers who hope to restore independence to Lafay, Lithuania and Estonia, |
| 1:48.0 | yeah, they continued to operate and hoped for the Western intervention, even up to this point. |
| 1:54.0 | Thirdly, so-called legalized resistance movement members who had ceased that activities and reintegrated into Soviet society |
| 2:01.5 | and their families too. And finally, the supporters of the resistance movement and their whole |
| 2:07.4 | families. This often included extended families of whomever had any ties with the resistance |
| 2:15.3 | and you could be declared as having such ties for literally |
| 2:19.2 | any reason, such as owning the flag of your previously independent country, or any symbols of it, |
| 2:24.2 | or, say, money with the symbols on it, or, um, prohibited literature, which also varied |
| 2:33.0 | date by date. |
| 2:40.7 | Usually, the KGB with their internal forces and support from the Soviet military just went to a household and then arrested everyone who was there at the time, gave them 15 minutes together whatever |
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