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Oh yes.

Good things, comrades, and welcome to the eastern border.

And Merry Christmas, of course.

And I truly hope that your Christmas was nice

and pleasant and actually kind of sweet, because all I've been reading is, you know, utter depression

from the Russian side. It seems that by the end of this year, they've turned into the total squad

of ultra-depressive nihilists. And I mean, they have some points there, but

watching Girkin cry, I mean, it was funny when he did it, but now he's just even more

ultra-gloomy. And Girken's funny all the time, but even some liberal people are getting

themselves into deep sadness. And they have a point there. The only difference between

smart analysts, but who are on the pro-war side and them

is the fact that some of them actually, you know, keep some optimism about the future.

But I'd like to start with the news thing because I'm going to get to that a bit later.

See, as I'm recording this, last night in Voronij district,

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