The war in Ukraine is seeing an increasing amount of foreigners fighting and dying in it. But foreign fighters arent anything new. Today were looking at another war of aggression from Moscow. One which saw thousands of foreigners travel to fight in it. Why did they do it?

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Hosted by: Indy Neidell & Spartacus Olsson
Director: Astrid Deinhard
Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson
Creative Producer: Marek Kamiński
Community Management: Ian Sowden
Written by: Francis van Berkel
Research by: Francis van Berkel
Edited by: Karolina Dołęga
Artwork and color grading by: Mikołaj Uchman
Sound design by: Marek Kamiński

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Sources:
SA-Kuva: 87643, 5554, 10516, 10491, 273, 211, 284, 275, 216,
National Archives NARA
Imperial War Museums: HU 71553, HU71509
Swedish Volunteer Corps recruitment poster courtesy of Catlemur 3

Soundtrack from EpidemicSound:
Break Free - Fabien Tell.mp3
Last Point of Safe Return - Fabien Tell
March Of The Brave 10 - Rannar Sillard
Other Sides of Glory - Fabien Tell
Rememberance - Fabien Tell
Weapon of Choice - Fabien Tell
When They Fell - Wendel Scherer

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