Major themes: Cowboy movies and Soviet Literature, x, r/menwritingwomen
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This week, Matt and Cameron tackel part 4 of their massive Stalingrad series.
Major themes: Cowboy movies and Soviet Literature, x, r/menwritingwomen
14:40 - It is in fact the largest tank battle of all time! All in all, there were 8,000 tanks involved, not counting troops, aircraft, other mechanized units, and artillery.
A novel about the Great Terror written during the Great Terror, Lydia Chukovskaya's Sofia Petrovna lives a fairly comfortable Soviet life – until her son is arrested for an unspecified crime.
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Cameron dives into John Williams' 1960 novel, Butcher's Crossing, a cautionary tale about how reading Ralph Waldo Emerson can drive you into buffalo-murdering madness.
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Cameron covers some necessary background information for an upcoming episode about Frederick Wiseman’s 2002 film “The Last Letter,” which dramatizes a chapter of Vassily Grossman’s Life and Fate.
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