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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.

The world. Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the eastern border.

Yay, it's another long-form episode again.

You see, our show started out as a People's History channel about the Soviet Union. I brought human perspectives about how it was like to live there and I was going on there.

And these perspectives are still very important to me. So, following all this war situation,

I would like to bring you two views on this war, which are fascinating each on their own,

but when you look at them together, then the situation

becomes quite revealing about the whole attitude, about the war inside Russia and how different

people take a look at it. This definitely couldn't go into any news episodes because this is,

well, way more philosophical. It is informative, though, but this is just something for which

these episodes are made for.

First two comes from a young Russian contractor, who posted his experience of one month of war in Ukraine on his blog.

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