EARLY EPISODE: The Battle of Stalingrad: Part 3

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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"

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

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.

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.

My Hero of the Soviet Union Student Academia

The Mound (Corpse)

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.

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