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Rylan May

Perfect timing. I have a long ass travel day today. This helps much.

Knut Nicholas Figenschou

Nate's story at the start reminds me of having to talk German to an Italian couple so they could talk French to a Senegalese man in a train carriage on the way from Paris to Milan.

Noblese Oblahaj

My Hero of the Soviet Union Student Academia

ruin

I read a book years ago about the impact of Soviet culture on Russian food and how they were even more of a industrialized food culture than the US, so I guess it makes sense that it's pretty much midwest food but slavic.

ruin

The whole Caucasian=White thing I think was an 18th century thing that for whatever weird fucking reason has stuck around, there was this belief at the time that "different races" had evolved from different proto human ancestors in different places and that made it okay to be racist.

Matt

The herring salad is селёдка под шубой and is one of my favorite Russian foods.

Karl Childers

ok i gotta ask, what is the russian word nate was joking about? from context it sounds like it basically means "ah well, guess i'll just die"

car2nage

It's the Russian version of the c-word (though in context, it more means "shit" or "fuck"

Marky Marcus Aurelius

I was deployed to al dhafra as mx crew for heavy jets and they would limit your drinks to 3 a night, but dudes would just bank their shots every night into a thermos or whatever for their one day off

Thomas Thompson

I guess I'd sound kind of naive if I mentioned that the accounts of the literal fighting and backstabbing between NKVD and Soviet Army surprised me since surely this isn't something modern armies do.

Jason Jones

I feel like Nate continuously jumping in with random anecdotes is kinda ruining the flow of these episodes

Tuesdays

Corpse Infrastructure Corp is now branching into the frozen food industry with Corpse Lasagna: for when the divorce has got you feeling as cold and desperate as the brave heros of Stalingrad Manhole Company's Sewer Position #13

Sam

Gram-mL conversion applies to water, but ethanol is lighter than water. So, it would probably be about 120-130?mL/4 + 1/3 floz of vodka. In Australia that’s four standard drinks. Again, this is in the context of Russians so still not doing a lot of damage. Source: I’m an assistant gin distiller

Brandon P

I remember reading an academic paper on the pens where the Germans held Soviet POWs before and after the encirclement and it was some positively harrowing shit. Some of the worst conditions I've ever read about during WW2 and to those that survived in the cannibal hell-pit, their prize is to get re-captured by the Soviets.

Boils

Not trying to be a whiny asshole, but can y’all please rein in Nate’s rambling speeches? It’s really ruining these episodes.

Louis Wilkins

Re brewing on Guadalcanal- my grandfather was a RNZAF ground crew man on the island. He told me many times of barrels of “jungle juice” fermented into foaming hell cocktails. You swept the raft of insects aside and dipped a cupful. Got you wasted.

Zach

It’s pizdets in English in case you were curious

Bobbie Fiasco

Nothing against the original poster, but I came in here to hard disagree.

nicktoyo .

People out here complaining about Nate's tangents... I actively look foward to Nate tangents, they're almost always entertaining. Just listen to Mike Duncan (in general) or Des Latham (for stalingrad) if you want just straight forward information... Im here to be entertained

Jonas Schwammberger

Bit late, but "Orgel" in german only refefers to the church pipe thingy. For a thingy to be considered an Orgel, it has to be an instrument using multiple pipes. So there are things like "Drehorgel" which I presume is something very specific to southern german/austrian/swiss, you'd just have to look up images.

CowZooka

Heh, ghost patrols remind of a thing I did as PSYOP in Afghanistan. Commanders always like us handing out leaflets, but I was in an incredibly rural part of Afghanistan where the vast majority of the population couldn't read. This meant it was best to disseminate information through word of mouth or our radio station. Buuuuttttt, that's not quantifiable, so when our command would get mad that we weren't handing out enough leaflets, my team would just lie and say we handed out hundreds.

CowZooka

Still, because we focused our efforts on word of mouth and radio, our intel guys did tell our team that most locals viewed Americans as a positive. Sometimes, you gotta lie to get the job done.

Spaghetti

By the end of 1940 the Jericho Trumpet had been removed from Stukas.