+ being a former part of the Russian Empire, which definitely would have forced them to learn  Russian

Cellophane was a post war invention. I wonder what th Finns actually used on that lake?

The Soviet Navy was full of WWI capital ships. Where it was getting better at was building submarines.

Finland was so desperate in the air war with the Soviet VVS they used the Buffalo Brewster fighter (USN/USMC) to great effect alongside obsolete Fokker fighters and Gloster Gladiator biplanes. With decent leadership, the Red Army, Soviet Navy, and Air Force should have won the war in days.

The conclusion of the Conrad Von Hotzendorf story 

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Episode 153 - Conrad Von Hotzendorf Part 2: Mt Doom

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https://www.nps.gov/aleu/learn/historyculture/index.htm
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/nmusn/explore/photography/wwii/wwii-pacific/aleutian-islands-campaign.html
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/aleutian-islands-attack-1942
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/today-in-history/forgotten-campaign-wwii-aleutian-islands-campaign.html
https://www.historynet.com/battle-of-the-aleutian-islands-recapturing-attu/

Episode 170 - The Aleutian Islands Campaign

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

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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Adam Zamoyski. Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March

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

On part 2 we talk about the terrible life and times of a soldier in the 1800s. 25 year conscription, disease, banditry, and good old government ran child abduction. Now shut up and die for your Emperor.  

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Episode 96 - French Invasion of Russia Part 2: Worst Enlistment Ever

Napoleon finally gets the battle he wants, leading to one of the bloodiest days in European history.

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Episode 98 - French Invasion of Russia Part 4: Barefoot Borodino

Moscow burns, Napoleon begins to lose his mind. 

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Episode 99 - French Invasion of Russia Part 5: Moscow is Decadent and Depraved.

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.

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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

A group of nazis, KKK, and gangsters Voltron together to come up with the dumbest attempted invasion in American history.

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http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/ron-paul-was-implicated-in-attempted-white-supremacist-island-invasion/

Episode 139 - Operation Red Dog

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