
The Eastern Border
History of Soviet Union Government , Politics and People
Curonian
Show overview
The Eastern Border launched in 2025 and has put out 109 episodes in the time since. That works out to roughly 85 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 39 min and 53 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Society & Culture show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 days ago, with 33 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Curonian.
From the publisher
Soviet Union and shaping current Russia and it’s Government and Ideologies. The government of the USSR. History of the Soviet rule. Laws, culture and everyday life of a Soviet citizen. What did they see? How did they get by? What did they go through? And what is left after the collapse of USSR? The other side of the cold war - talking about politics in the EU, history of the USSR and the Eastern European region in general. Mostly for Americans, who also happen to be history geeks. Also, we're all friends here, and have beer!
Latest Episodes
View all 109 episodes2.28: Black Overlord
2.27 Cuckoldry Day
2.26 The Great Mattress Raid
2.25 Dendro-Fecal Imperium
2.24 The Black Rain
2.23 The Slow Freeze
Dark Autumn for Russia
2.22 The Terminal Matrix: 404 Empire Not Found
2.21 Zero Day At The Ivory Tower
2.20 The Asymmetrical Humiliation: Or Else, What?
Greetings, comrades! In Episode 2.20: The Asymmetrical Humiliation, we examine the sheer, terminal absurdity of the Russian Federation’s bureaucratic collapse.The geopolitical gravity has inverted: Armenian [...]
2.19 Planet of Pink Ponies
The digital iron curtain just fell. This week, we dive into the total communications blackout in Moscow and St. Petersburg as the Kremlin panics over [...]
2.18 Everything Must Go
The Russian state is no longer an empire; it is a bankrupt cartel running a terminal liquidation sale. In this episode, we wade into the [...]
2.17 Relegation, Russian Style
The front office is panicking, the franchise player just demanded a trade, and the owner is literally burning down the stadium to pay the referees. [...]

2.16 It’s The Economy, Stupid!
“It’s the economy, stupid.” The Russian Federation is in full rigor mortis. In this massive, breaking-news episode of The Eastern Border, we conduct a full [...]

2.15 The Z-Files
Greetings, comrades, and welcome back to the bunker. Today, we’re broadcasting live from The Eagles—just 22 kilometers from the Russian border—and stepping straight into the [...]

2.14 Zone of death, part 2
Welcome back to the bunker for the second half of our massive deep dive into the accelerating collapse of the Russian Federation. In Part 1, [...]

Episode 2.14: The Zone of Death (Part 1)
Welcome back to the bunker. The bureaucratic backlog has cleared, and we are diving straight into the abyss. The Russian civilian economy has officially entered [...]
2.13 The Axis Burns: F-35s in Tehran & Putin’s 30 Trillion Ruble Crater
While the physical fires are kept burning with a metric ton of heating pellets here in the freezing Latvian buffer zone, the geopolitical cesspool has [...]
2.12 Elves are useless: An Official Apology to Sauron and all the Orcs of Mordor
Welcome to the geopolitical cesspool. Today, we are taking a hard look at the crumbling, jury-rigged mafia state operating just across the border, and the [...]

2.11 System Failure: 4 years of Mafia State At War
Greetings, Comrades! Four years ago, the Russian military establishment thought they were going to hold a victory parade in Kyiv within 72 hours. Today, the [...]