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4. "Russia is not the neighbor we thought it was."

Mon Apr 4, 2022, 10:16 PM

Apr 2022

Really?

I guess 450,000 Soviet troops just wanted to borrow a cup of sugar and some reindeer jerky back in 1939.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War

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