TITLE:        Why Did These Soldiers Blow Themselves Up 💣
CHANNEL:      The Art Of War  (@theartofwarrr)
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A Soviet soldier took a grenade and blew himself up with his comrades around him.

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FULL SCRIPT:
A Soviet soldier took a grenade and blew himself up with his comrades around him. He did this because they were surrounded by Nazis with no way to escape. But these weren't just regular soldiers. They were spies who knew the locations of top secret Soviet bases. And to prevent the enemy from extracting those secrets, Soviet agents would sometimes gather around a grenade, taking the information with

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TIMED:
[000.08] A Soviet soldier took a grenade and blew
[002.40] himself up with his comrades around him.
[004.40] He did this because they were surrounded
[006.08] by Nazis with no way to escape. But
[008.32] these weren't just regular soldiers.
[010.16] They were spies who knew the locations
[012.00] of top secret Soviet bases. And to
[014.24] prevent the enemy from extracting those
[015.92] secrets, Soviet agents would sometimes
[017.84] gather around a grenade, taking the
[019.68] information with
