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[Panel 1]
[Nils]
...never mind all the baby-gear
that I have no use for, people keep
Freecycling "Thomas the Tank" toys.

[Jaakko]
Oh? That is a
valuable
thing, if true.

[Nils]
No, I think it's just

[Jaakko]
Tomas the Tank. It was a classic!

[Panel 2]
[Ginny]
Are you sure you don't mean
Thomas the Tank Engine?

[Jaakko]
After the Soviet tanks rolled
into Czechoslovakia, the
locals were pretty hacked
off with the whole business.

So the Russians got a local
animation shop to make a children's
cartoon about the happy friendly
Soviet armoured forces.

[Nils]
Hey, are you really...

[Panel 3]
[Jaakko]
But they only made six episodes
because the animators kept putting
in anti-communist messages.

Like the time that Tomas gets
stuck in the mud and the mice come
and eat all his armour.

So now it is all very
rare and obscure.

[Panel 4]
[Ginny]
Are you claiming you
have actually SEEN this?

[Jaakko]
Well...

in a manner of speaking...

[Ginny]
Really?

[Jaakko]
no.

[Nils]
The Soviets were using T-64s
as their main battle tank,
weren't they? I've got a
computer model of one of them
on the server somewhere...



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