59 - TR-85 - The Romanian Bison

When all the world was bright and new and small boys were allowed to design tanks a lot of concepts were created for lumbering landships lurching slowly across the battlefield while delivering justice and vengeance to the enemy from a series varied weaponry in multiple turrets. M ...  Show more

Failed joint procurement programs somehow led to the one tank that a cashed up country making its own decisions would buy. With the production lines open again it's time to revisit the Leopard 2! 

In this episode I will talk about some curiosities about Romania that you hopefully didn't know before. As an example, did you know that Timișoara, one of the major cities in Romania, was the first one in Europe to have electric public lightening? Find the transcription of the ...

In this episode we return in person to Ukraine, but we start in Ukraine's neighbouring state of Moldova, a fellow former soviet republic where we were joined by friend of the podcast Julius Strauss and Kimberley Reczek. Prior to our arrival they had spent the day in Transnistri ...  Show more

Today's dialogue is about stereotypes about Germany.

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The story of the Vikings who travelled to eastern Europe is just as thrilling as the story of those who headed west. It's also just as important – still being relevant today through deep rooted connections to the ongoing war in Ukraine. But what are those long-lasting links, exac ...  Show more