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🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Greetings, Comrades!
Today is Latvia’s Independence Day! The first time one, happened right after WW1. However, there is some weirdness around it, and our founding father Ulmanis is with a bit of a mired history. So there we go. Enjoy!
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0:28.3 | Thank you. Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the Eastern border. |
0:36.3 | Today, I'm going to dis, our first prime minister and the first leader of the nation. |
0:41.3 | See, the thing is, there's a lot of people in our country who would like to idolize Carlos Solomon, who is basically our George Washington. |
0:44.3 | Problem is that I consider that to be wrong. |
0:47.3 | For starters, I'm not even going to mention the fact that he decided to do the non-aggression thing with the Soviet Union and thus |
0:57.4 | we never even resisted them properly. That's going to go into the background. It's not about that, |
1:04.0 | really. What happened in the 18th of November, how it happened, and who the man was and why he's idolized. |
1:12.1 | Honit, by the way, |
1:13.5 | Furt You has compiled a bit of a history of the 18th November. |
1:18.2 | Facts go on to this. |
1:20.1 | So go check out her YouTube channel, as you always should, |
1:23.3 | because she does the best work at all of the situation. |
1:26.2 | But I'm a bit tired when my own people |
1:30.0 | idolize the wrong kind of people in a way, and even though we truly had our highest times |
1:38.5 | the best we ever lived in the history of Lafia in the old monist times, we still have to look at it critically and think about it. |
1:48.0 | For starters, this episode, like I said, is about 18th of November, but why is this day so special? |
1:54.0 | Why is this? Our Independence Day in what happened and when? |
1:58.0 | Well, I spoke with some people and, um, turns out it probably shouldn't |
2:03.7 | be, to be honest. It's a bit more complex than that. And to understand what's going on, |
2:10.1 | we have to get through to who Carlos Ullmanis was. Technically, his full name is Carlis August Wilhelm Ullmannes, and he was born in 4th of |
2:21.9 | September, 1877, died sometime in 1942, and we still haven't found his grave, really. See, and I'm |
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