This is not typical Russian climate, but rather highlands.  Still cold.  Ironically, Morozov comes from Moroz, which is Russian for frost.

Unaccented, probably not. But there are enough accents within Russia so that it wouldn't sound out of place.

The US plans the battle of the Hurtgen Forest. The first step is actively hating your own soldiers. 

sources for both episodes
https://www.historynet.com/the-hurtgen-forest-1944-the-worst-place-of-any.htm
https://europeremembers.com/story/battle-of-huertgen-forest/
https://armyhistory.org/hell-in-the-forest-the-22d-infantry-regiment-in-the-battle-of-hurtgen-forest/
https://9thinfantrydivision.net/battle-of-the-hurtgen-forest/
https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/longest-land-battle-hurtgen-forest/
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2020/01/29/the-battle-of-hurtgen-forest-a-tactical-nightmare-for-allied-forces/

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Episode 155 - Battle of Hurtgen Forest Part 1: Courtney Hodges Hates His Own Soldiers

Part 2 of our 4 part series. Russia invades the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and promptly bombs and shells themselves without mercy. 

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Episode 160 - The First Chechen War Part 2: So You've Accidentally Killed Your Own Conscripts

the conclusion to our First Chechen War series 

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Episode 162 - The First Chechen War Part 4:  The One Where Everyone Invades Hospitals

The US fucks around in Mexican politics and eventually finds out.

Sources:
https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/wwi/108653.htm
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1997/fall/mexican-punitive-expedition-1.html
https://history.army.mil/html/reference/army_flag/mexex.html
https://www.nps.gov/prsf/learn/historyculture/pursuing-pancho-villa.htm
Pancho Villa and the Attack on Columbus, New Mexico

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Episode 163 - The Pancho Villa Expedition Part 1: Dueling Race Wars

The conclusion of the reign of Bokassa I

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Episode 168 - The Napoleon Nerd Who Took Over a Country and Crowned Himself Emperor Part 2

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Sources:
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/messerschmitt-me-163b-1a-komet/nasm_A19530072000

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-super-scary-legend-nazi-germanys-me-163-rocket-fighters-18494

https://books.google.com/books?id=xiADAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA124&dq=popular+science+%22A+two-room+wing%22&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q&f=true

"Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet". Wings of the Luftwaffe

Volmar, Joe (1999). I Learned to Fly for Hitler

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2020/10/the-german-rocket-fighter-that-dissolved-its-pilots-alive/

Episode 169 - The Nazi Rocket Plane That Melted its Pilots

The story of the deadliest woman in military history

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Sources: 
Lady Death: The Memoir of Stalin's Sniper - Lyudmila Pavlichenko
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/lady-death-red-army-lyudmila-pavlichenko
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/eleanor-roosevelt-and-the-soviet-sniper-23585278/

Episode 184 - Lyudmila Pavlichenko

Part 3/4

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Episode 200 - The Polar Bear Expedition Part 3: Go Chop Down the Poop Tree

Crassus attempts to go to war to build his own resume. He ignores everyone's advice and marches his legions into the most predictable defeat on earth.

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Plutarch. Crassus. 

Mary T. Boatwright. The Romans: From Village to Empire

Roman-Persian Wars: The Battle of Carrhae

Episode 255 - The Battle of Carrahae

Stalin launches a war from his Apartment without any planning whatsoever. Hilarity ensues. 

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Episode 86 - Winter War Part 2: Molotov Bread Basket

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

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Sources:
Bell, Stewart. The Bayou of Pigs
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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