thank you for speaking the TRUTH. #popNOTsoda

The Soviet Army digs in for the long haul while a Tajik warlord named Ahmed Shah Massoud makes them pay for every inch of land they take.

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Episode 57 - Soviet Afghan War 3: The Lion of the Panjshir

As the Soviets got bogged down in Afghanistan the United States and its allies are helping the Afghan rebels, but only with a little cash and small arms. This all changes when an alcoholic, drug addicted, womanizing Congressman from Texas gets involved.

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Episode 58 - Soviet Afghan War 4: Operation Cyclone

Babrak Karmal is a failure and the Soviets know he has to be replaced if they are ever going to get a functioning Afghan government. Enter Muhammed Najibullah, a mass murdering psychopath. 

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Episode 59 - Soviet Afghan War 5: The Rise of Najibullah

On part 6 the Soviet Union has to figure out how to pull their army out of Afghanistan while the entire country collapses around them while new journalistic freedoms show everyday Soviet citizens the horrors of war for the first time. 

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Episode 60 - Soviet Afghan War 6: Taking Your Ball and Going Home

This is the story of how Pepsi, yes that Pepsi, ended up controlling the world's sixth largest submarine navy.

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sources:
https://www.redkalinka.com/Russian-Blog/78/_The-day-Pepsi-became-a-great-military-power/
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/09/business/international-report-pepsi-will-be-bartered-for-ships-vodka-deal-with-soviets.html
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/soviet-union-pepsi-ships

Episode 62 - The Pepsi Navy

On this episode we dive into America's first overseas war of Empire and how two racists from Nebraska started a war.

**Corrections**
Andres Bonifacio did not receive an education in spain and was not summerly executed. He was tried for a plot to overthrow the government and executed.

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Sources:
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1899/01/06/102497181.pdf
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18990801.2.111&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1
https://books.google.com/books?id=fW_aeCJJ9J0C&pg=PA116#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=N6nkB_PDdXcC

Episode 79 - Philippine American War Part 1: Thanks a lot Nebraska

Clint Lorance killed two unarmed Afghan civilians in 2012.  

Clint Lorance is a free man. He walked out of the United States Army Disciplinary Barracks at Leavenworth at the order the President Donald J Trump on November 15, 2019.

This is the story of the war crime he committed. 

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Sources: 
https://taskandpurpose.com/think-lt-clint-lorance-murderer
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/07/01/army-officer-convicted-of-murder-in-afghanistan-to-get-another-look-by-civilian-court/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/without-a-doubt-in-my-mind-soldier-who-testified-against-clint-lorance-thinks-hes-guilty-despite-trump-pardon
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/25/us/jailed-ex-army-officer-has-support-but-not-from-his-platoon.html

Episode 82 - Clint Lorance is a Murderer

Soviets launch unending frontal assaults against the Finnish Defenders. Little did the Soviets know that the Finns had a secret weapon: tens of thousands of empty booze bottles and balls of steel. 

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Episode 87 - Winter War Part 3: Comrade Zap Brannigan and the Molotov Cocktail

One of the deadliest men who has ever walked the earth probably was too short to ride a rollercoaster.

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Episode 88 - Winter War Part 4: The White Death

Napoleon attempts to make friends, ends up making war instead. 

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Source for all related episodes:

Adam Zamoyski. Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March

Episode 95 - French Invasion of Russia Part 1: Imperial Bromance

The Ottoman Empire, fueled by Turkish Nationalism, launched a genocidal campaign of violence against their own Armenian subjects. 

This is the story of how the Armenian people struck back.

Sources: 
Bogosian, Eric. Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide. 2015. 

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Episode 101 - Soghomon Tehlirian: The Luger of Justice

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