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Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by, on track to your destination.

Not a care in the world as you simply lean back.

And before you know it, you're there.

This is how travels should feel.

And on our trains, it does.

Avanti West Coast,

feel good travel.

Music Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the Eastern border, properly this time.

As you could hear by the presence of our theme song, which is My Army by the Red Army Choir,

to those of you who didn't know this, Honite is back from vacation.

So it's time to do a proper long-form episode this time.

As I mentioned, in the last short news app, part of this is going to be about Shoygu and how he's being criticized.

But frankly, to explain this, this episode is going to be about the differences

between the worldviews of the supporters of the federal, sort of liberal,

approach to the Russian state pursued by, well, people in power and Putin.

Let me be precise here, liberal only by the adherence of this

worldview. And the adherents are these true Russians as they call themselves. Imperialists,

pretty much old monarchists, old Soviet fans, these kind of people. And these are the people

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