Don River

and is the granary of Europe.

As seen from the map below, which shows clearly enough the advantages of its position and its relative size, the territory is included between the Carpathian Mountains in the west and the River Don and the Caucasus Mountains in the east, between the northern tributaries of the Dnieper and the Black and Azov Seas.

Politically speaking, Ukraine of today is divided between Russia and Austria-Hungary, It is, however, still united in race, sentiment and aspirations, just as in the past it was also united in the political sense of the word.

The map shows the extent of the Russian and of the Austro-Hungarian spheres and the frontier line dividing them.

It abounds in coal, iron and oil and is the granary of Europe.

As seen from the map below which shows clearly enough the advantages of its position and its relative size, the territory is included between the Carpathian Mountains in the west and the River Don and the Caucasus Mountains in the east, between the northern tributaries of the Dnieper and the Black and Azov Seas.

Politically speaking Ukraine of today is divided between Russia and Austria-Hungary.

It is however still united in race, sentiment and aspirations, just as in the past it was also united in the political sense of the word.

For days he traveled, the iron collar of thralldom still about his neck as he sought desperately to reach Christian lands.

After more than two weeks of flight, the iron collared and exhausted Englishman reached a Muscovite garrison at Akepolis on the River Don.

He was questioned and found honest by the governor, who struck off his badge of slavery and aided him.

And so the knighted hero made his way back to England by way of the easternmost Christian kingdom, seeing a land entirely alien to all but a few of his kinsmen in those days.

And you can see how this, you know, dark power that is essentially, you know, as I possessed, as Professor Dugin once said very early on in the-- during the special military operation, the whole country is, of Ukraine is possessed almost by an evil spirit, and especially its government is making such heinous decisions to specifically strike at civilian targets in order to scare, demoralize the, the people of the Russian Federation, to bring them into d- bring the country into disarray and bring these people into despair.

And it's very evident that that is happening even against the commercial vessels and the civilian vessels all across the Azovskoye More, the Azov Sea, the Black Sea, and these new terror strikes on commercial civilian vessels, not against the Chernomorskiy Black Sea Fleet, but actually just against Russian business vessels carrying and bringing in goods across the water from the Bosporus and Dardanelles all the way to the, to the delta of the Don River, for example.

And all of these ships are being put at risk.

And especially this year, this is almost a new update.

Across the Gerrus are those lands called Royal, where the best and most numerous of the Scythians are, who consider all other Scythians their slaves.

Their territory stretches south to the Tauric land and east to the trench that was dug by the sons of the blind men, and to the port called the Cliffs on the Mysian Lake, and part of it stretches to the Tanais River.

North of the Royal Scythians live the Blackcloaks, who are of another and not a Scythian stock.

And beyond the Blackcloaks the land is all marshes and uninhabited by man, as far as we know.

It is though in Calabria some other people, not Calabrian, were to live on the promontory with a line drawn from the harbor of Brundisium to Tarentum.

I am speaking of these two countries, but there are many others of a similar kind that Taurus resembles.

Beyond the Tauric country the Scythians begin, living north of the Tauri and beside the eastern sea, west of the Cimmerian Bosporus and the Maeetian Lake as far as the Tanais River, which empties into the end of that lake.

Now it has been seen that on its northern and inland side, running from the Ister, Scythia is bounded first by the Agathyrsi, next by the Neuri, next by the Man-Eaters, and last by the Blackcloaks.

Meanwhile, it was Weiss and Paulus themselves who had repeatedly expressed optimism about capturing Stalingrad by the end of September, with their only recorded complaint at this time being the ongoing shortage of replacement troops.

Paulus had indeed requested three fresh divisions to complete the capture of Stalingrad, but Hitler rejected the request on the grounds that no such divisions were available to spare, and he explicitly forbid any transfer of divisions away from the vulnerable Don River flank.

Howe, for his part, apparently claimed at the time that he personally expected Stalingrad to fall within 10 days.

Following the meeting, Paulus went on to submit three separate winter operational proposals, the largest of which envisioned a 15-division offensive aimed around Noznaya and Tishchenko to encircle the entirety of the Soviet forces still trapped between the Don and Volga rivers.

Hitler stopped joining them for lunch or dinner altogether, withdrawing instead to his windowless private hut and emerging only after dusk had fallen.

The two daily situation conferences, held at midday and again in the evening, now took place in an icy atmosphere within the confines of this same hut.

Furthermore, Hitler demanded a complete review of every single order ever issued to Army Group A since it had first crossed the Don River.

In all subsequent conferences going forward, Hitler now required the presence of a secretary trained in shorthand to take down a complete verbatim transcript of everything said by everyone present.

But, you know, in the south of Brazil, it's not tropical when you go further south, but... uh what you get instead is it's almost like a savannah it's really strange they have they basically have savannah instead of a prairie they go far away from their the amazon but i tell you if they if they've locked it it'd be a civilization building project of their own But if they like really locked in and they did that, oh my gosh, oh my gosh.

The Amazon, of the great rivers of the world, you know, you think of the Nile, the Danube, the Volga, the Don River, you know, the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Indus, the Ganges, the Han and the Yellow Rivers, right? Of the great rivers of the world.

The Amazon is a very close second to the Mississippi.

Very, very close second to the Mississippi.

Somewhere on the steppe, east of the Don River, summer of 1942, three in the morning, a German soldier in a forward trench hears a small engine somewhere up in the dark, and then the engine cuts out, silence, just the faintest whisper, wind through wires and fabric somewhere up in the black sky above him, and then the bombs, by the time the searchlights found anything, whatever it was had already turned and was heading back east.

The soldiers started calling them the Nocthexen, the night witches.

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