Howdy everyone and welcome back to the show! Today I will be talking about a subject very near and dear to my heart, Soviet small arms. Ooooooohhhhh. If that sounds like something that wouldn't immediately put you to sleep, you should tune in as I discuss Kalashnikov the man, his gun, and how it shaped the 20th century.

Sources:

A Look Back at the SKS-45 Rifle: ⁠https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/a-look-back-at-the-sks-45-rifle/

An Ode to the 7.62x39m (M43) Soviet: https://www.americanhunter.org/content/an-ode-to-the-7-62x39mm-m43-soviet/

Kalashnikov's Uncomfortable Legacy: ⁠https://www.rferl.org/a/kalashnikov-uncomfortable-legacy/25210112.html⁠

Military Assault Rifles: https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep10642

Obituary: Mikhail Kalashnikov: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-19870688

Russian Arms Sales to the Middle East: https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/russian-arms-sales-middle-east

Soviet Arms Trade With the Noncommunist Third World: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1174128

The AK-47: Comerade Kalashnikov’s Masterwork: https://gunsmagazine.com/guns/the-ak-47/

The AK-47: Everything You Want to Know: https://www.military.com/off-duty/ak-47-all-about.html

The World’s Most Popular Gun: The Long Road to the AK-47: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43152665

Howdy everyone and welcome back. I have a little short episode going over some high points of the history of St. Petersburg. There is so much history to this city, even though it's really not that old, so I just chose some of the most important, and some of my favorite parts to talk about.

Sources:

About St. Petersburg: https://forumspb.com/en/o-sankt-peterburge/fakti/

Moscow Becomes the Capital of the Soviet Union: https://www.prlib.ru/en/history/619089

Second Northern War:https://www.britannica.com/event/Second-Northern-War

Siege of Leningrad: https://www.britannica.com/event/Siege-of-Leningrad

St. Petersburg: https://www.britannica.com/place/St-Petersburg-Russia

St. Petersburg Through the Ages: https://forumspb.com/en/o-sankt-peterburge/history/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

Howdy everyone and welcome back. It's been a while but we are back. Join me for an episode covering the WWII most famous flying women of the Red Army, the Night Witches.

Sources:

The Soviet Female Fliers of World War II: https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep13932.8

"Bomb-dropping Bombshells:" https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1061&context=madrush&httpsredir=1&referer=

"The Soviet Night Witches": https://wrightmuseum.org/the-soviet-night-witches/