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The Eastern Border

War in Ukraine: Episode 166

The Eastern Border

Kristaps Andrejsons

Cold War, Politics, Soviet, Society & Culture, History, Ussr, News

4.6851 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

I was peacefully working on my article about Soviet/Russian army Hazing traditions, and was about to go to sleep...but then, I read news so weird that...well...just had to share them with you.

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0:00.0

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0:13.4

Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the Eastern Border. You know, it's 4.28 a.m. at this point in Lafeyer. But, um, you bet don't know this, but

0:23.4

there are two types of episodes that I make. There are these episodes where I sit down and I

0:29.4

want to make an episode and everything and then I just, you know, sift through the news and do

0:34.1

everything. And there are these other types of episodes like this one where something happens.

0:40.5

And it's so inspiring, crazy, awesome, or just bizarre that I can't, in my own goodwill,

0:50.3

sit down and go to sleep without making an episode.

0:57.3

And this is that case. I thought i had seen things and oh boy i was i was even shocked myself i had been peacefully spending today by

1:03.0

writing my article about dead of shina the hazing in the soviet army and the russian army

1:07.4

because i want to publish that before before we go to Ukraine, managing documentation,

1:12.4

all that stuff. And then, you know, I also watch death of Stalin so that I would have notes

1:17.8

because this evening at Thursday, 14th, at 9 p.m., sorry, 11 p.m. Again, this is super early, you'll get it. At 11 p.m. Lafayette time, we will be watching Death of Stalin. I'll be doing a mystery science theater commentary. That's for my patrons. It's going to be a patrons in VIP's only event. By the way, on Monday, we are having Andrew Heaton on from Political Orphanage on the show.

1:45.8

And then later on, we're going to have a bit of a thing.

1:49.3

We're going to be recording on Discord because due to some personal tragedies,

1:54.4

on that I can't do much editing this month, and I won't force her to, which is sad,

1:59.3

of course, but, you know, I'd rather not go into details.

2:02.8

Maybe she'll share things someday herself, but, you know, it is what it is.

2:08.9

However, we'll be having, I'm hoping to get John Michael Goudier on because he has some interesting use, and that's going to be a breather episode but we also are

2:19.1

looking to have advent of computing she shan on because as he's the computer expert our resident

2:26.7

friend who's an expert on that here and i asked him to do some research on the firing computers

2:33.1

and the electronics and to compare them

2:35.8

between T90 and Abrams tank because there's a lot of electronics in those tanks and a lot of

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