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Thank you. Greetings, Comrade, and welcome to the Eastern border.

Now, like I mentioned previously, I wanted to make an episode about Viktor Salksnes,

because he died on January the 1st.

But that led me to some even more horrific things and made me take a deeper look at all the situations surrounding Russian propaganda and how brainwashed can people actually get.

And that's sort of scary.

Viktor Salakson was a buddy of Igor Girkin and Maxim Kalashnikov, one of those angry patriots

and all that stuff.

And he had a very, very bright career, so to speak.

He was a Russian politician and the Swiss Air Force Colonel.

But, well, ethnically, he was 100% Latvian,

but his family hated their Latvianness horribly.

He was an open enemy of Latvia,

and it didn't matter that his names, her name, everything, was a Latvian.

He also managed to be a member of the USSR Supreme Soviet, a member of the Russian All-People Union,

and also represented the Rodgina, which is the mother national patriotic union party in the Russian state Duma.

From 2003 to 2007, he also was in the People's Union Party in the Fourth Duma.

And from 2013 to 2015, he also managed to be a mayor of the city of Tuchkova in the Moscow Oblast.

During his, well, weird political views and personal, well, violence and style, because he was very angry at things, we'll hear that later.

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