The Eastern Border

Greetings, Comrades! This time, we have a bit more in-depth ep about how it’s like on the border, how people are facing the difficulties here and a bit about the news as well.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Daily news from the war in Ukraine. This time, we use Igor Girkin as a source. And thankfully it hasn’t been as loud and terrible as in the previous days.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! Continuing to give you the most recent and important information about the current war in Ukraine. This time, straight from the Polish-Ukrainian borderSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! Daily news digest about the current events in Ukraine, this time delivered from Warsaw, Poland!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Daily news update about what’s happened in the Russian agression towards Ukraine, please share and spread to people that you know!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! We bring you another daily news digest about the most important events, do not fall for disinformation!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! I hope this episode finds you in good health and spirit. Today we’re back with one of our analytical episodes. We are joined by Perri from The Red Line podcast and talk about Putin’s disinformation, current events and looking at what should we be watching ot in these dire times! Glory to Ukraine!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! This has been a LONG and hard day for us, I've done a lot of planning and research and everything, but here you go. The first news digest is here, more will follow - this one, like I said in the previous episode, I'm not charging Patrons for this, so don't worry. Have a great day, stay safe and glory to Ukraine!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades. A short intro about the recent events and what’s going to happen with our show now. The plan about what we’ll do when a war breaks out, is now activated. Glory to Ukraine!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our interview with the director of the first ever Latvian horror movie is here!Here’s the YouTube link where you can watch the movie for free – https://youtu.be/VrkB6-S9d2MHowever, if you’d like to support the creator (and I highly recommend that you do) here’s an amazon link for the US and UK where you can buy the movie. – https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B09PVNCCNZ/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_rAnd here’s their facebook group where you can get all the news about his movie and the upcoming one’s https://www.facebook.com/landofbluelakesEnjoy!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! This might be a bit old since the news change every day and this was recorded on 14.02, however, when the time to get Russia on our news radar comes again…IF this one is truly over now, which I find doubtful, then this will definitely be informative for you. Juris is a Latvian/American journalist, one of the best we have, living in Latvia for many years now, but originally his stomping grounds are Boston. He’s been on the show before as well, and I hope you’ll enjoy his perspective!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! Here's part 2 of our Soviet Deficit history, about how the USSR tried to fix the shortage issues...and failed miserably. Enjoy!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! This episode is all about what shortages we experienced in the Soviet Union and how 21 people died, because we lacked chewing gum. And it's actually not funny. Some of this stuff even surprised me, out of all things. Enjoy! Oh, and do consider becoming our patron at patreon.com/theeasternborder or just visit theeasternborder.lv and donate to the show!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! As we promised to Bob, here's our episode on the postal service of the USSR. This was a huge subject and we had to cut some stuff out as this was already a long episode - but it's chock full of interesting facts and stories, like a care package sent to some poor conscript in Vorkut or Khabarovsk. This episode made me realize that logistics are a nightmare and that folks who care about our mail are unsung heroes. And hey - if some of them will listen to this ep, while doing their delivieries, it'll make me a tad bit happier. This one's dedicated to you, postal workers! Enjoy!Oh, and please, consider becoming our patron at patreon.com/theeasternborder or donating via the link on our homepage, theeasternborder.lvHappiness is Mandatory!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! In this episode, we're joined by John Christmas, author of the recently released KGB Banker book and the cetral whistleblower in the famous Parex affair. We discussed corruption concerning the bank by high-standing politicians, funding Putin's regime and organised crime and what could be done about it. Enjoy! And don't forget to check out the KGB Banker!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades!Anete’s on vacation with her husband atm, I’ve fixed up my health but it’s still new year’s so this one was done in one take, and is my unedited actual live voice. This is about new year’s greetings, our plans for the next year…and also how winter holidays are celebrated in Russian prisons, because of course I just had to. Happy New Year! Happiness is EXTRA Mandatory!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! This episode is not very good in my mind, telling that honestly – I was in massive pain while recording, and we ended up having to abruptly end it, because it got really bad and I had to get in touch with medical personnel. However, so that the part 2 would make sense, and because I don’t know when exactly I’ll fit in a re-record, I hope that you’ll forgive me and enjoy what can be enjoyed from this episode on Soviet Standards. Which are an interesting subject. Next week, we’re doing something special, stay tuned! Oh, and MASSIVE thank You to all who support our show! It’s situations like these where I value it the most. Merry Christmas everyone!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! We’re busy, recording episodes about Soviet everyday life, however this time, we bring you Michael from the amazing The Red Line podcast to discuss the peculiarities of post-soviet politics. It’s complicated, messy and leaves you slightly depressed with more questions than answers. Just the way we enjoy it here. We dragged out Michael and threatened him with KGB so that he’d get a bit of relaxed conversation, instead of the very technical expertise he usually does on his show, and I think it ended up really well. Oh, and a quote from him that I promised to put in the show notes:“First law of journalism: The more bullet holes in your hotel, the better and cheaper the food!” /MichaelLink to The Red Line podcast:https://www.theredlinepodcast.com/Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades!As the possibility of another war with Ukraine looms over us again, I dug through the weird parts of the Russian media that usually don't get covered that much in the west, especially Igor Girkin's (the ex-leader of Donbass separatists who started this whole mess back in 2014) takes on the matter, together with other, in my opinion, overlooked people and made it in a digest form. Obviously, a few things have happened since friday when this was recorded, but this should give you some understanding about the warmongering side of Russian society. Enjoy!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! To round up this month, I wanted to speak about something not as terrible as I have in the past few episodes, so to continue our military tech series, here's THE most famous Soviet WW2 plane of all time. Enjoy! (I'm very happy to be able to say "enjoy" again, at the end of the episode)Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! We welcome the return of the Stalin series with an episode about Holodomor, one of the first and lesser known mass acts of tyranny that Uncle Joe committed. This one...this one's dark. Extra dark. It's about the man-made famine of 1932-1933, a genocide of the Ukrainian nation. But I couldn't speak about anything else, as this...this is Holodomor rememberance month. Вічна пам'ять!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This one isn't pretty and I already know that a lot of people won't like it. It's a bit of a harsh take, from a very realpolitik perspective on this matter. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades!It's been a while since we've had a proper guest on my show - and this time, it's Roberto from History of Saquartvelo Georgia! I'm always happy to introduce You to others who care about our glorious side of the world, and his show's amazing. We spoke about the most bad-ass Georgian poet of all time, Galaktioni and his shenanigans with the Soviets and also had a lot of fun discussing Georgian culture in general. Oh, and I had a migraine in the middle. Enjoy! And check out History of Saquartvelo Georgia! (all the links are below)https://historyofsaqartvelo.com/https://twitter.com/History_Georgiahttps://www.facebook.com/TheHistoryOfSaqartveloGeorgiahttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmdK0d7XlcKe_gX2ZcjmF3Qhttps://www.instagram.com/thehistoryofsaqartvelogeorgia/Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! This episode is all about Soviet urban legends, straight from the USSR army! Enjoy!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades!This ep is all about how and why Navalny wasn't avarded the Nobel peace prize, but was instead awarded the Sakharov prize. And Sakharov, who actually was awarded the Nobel peace prize. Look...it's complicated! Enjoy!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! This time, it's Soviet Schools and how to survive them. Managed to grab some interviews just before the crazy lockdowns started! Enjoy! T-Shirt market on the page, incoming!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Heyhey, Comrades!We interviewed the creators of ATOM RPG two years ago, when their original Post-Soviet oldschool RPG game came out. And...now there's a sequel, named Trudograd! And we're IN IT! DJ Kristaps lives! It's like a dream come true!Anyways, I've got some free Steam keys for this amazing game, so if you want a copy, do let me know! And if you're not among the lucky few, please do support the devs! The game is good and really cheap.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! Ohboy. After this utterly bizzare Eastern European team from literally the weirdest country in Europe managed to beat Real Madrid at home…yeah, had to provide some explanation of why you should absolutely care about Sheriff! Soviet Schools next. Enjoy!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1908, a huge ball of flame struck Siberian countryside. For the eyewitnesses, it was as if the world was ending, for scientists of the day, a magnificent astronomical event and for the conspiracy theorists a splendid source of weirdness. Seriously tho, it was aslo quite lucky that it fell there, in the middle of nowhere and not, say, on Paris or London or somewhere like that. It’s a cool little story, and I hope you’ll enjoy this one!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So, over the weekend there was a three day event in Russia, concerning gosduma where they went to the ballots, threw in some papers and then some of those papers were pulled out and shredded and some more were stuffed in and the remaining papers were counted with people doing so, pretending that it matters. It was a bit of a comedy, bit of a mess, United Russia's still in power. This ep's all about it. Also, hi, I'm back from being hit by a car and have a lot of catching up to do. Enjoy!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades!Today we continue our story about the weird and innovative flying boat plane things! Enjoy!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! In this episode, we look at the weirdest and most amazing Soviet achievement in transportation technology, the Ekranoplan! Notably, the caspian sea monster. Enjoy!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades!This episode turned out weird. I mean…EXTRA weird. What was meant to be about just how Belarus is using poor souls as their political weapon turned into somehting else when the migrants just…dissappeared. Not even kidding.Also, yeah, there will be only 3 eps this month, due to how insanely difficult it was to make this one and Kristaps’s birthday is on the 28th. So if you can, please do click that PayPal button. Thank You!Audio PlayerSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades!Today, we’re looking at the weird and interesting history of computers and cybernetics as it were in the Soviet Union. Because now and then, I’d like to cover topics that are actually, you know, NOT terribly depressing. Also, don’t forget to check out Advent of Computing podcast, and enjoy!Happiness is Mandatory!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! Part 2 of the Peter the Painter is here. Sorry about the weird way how I speak, I’ve understood that I should NEVER rely on translations made by other people, because this…this was so weird that it got me a massive headache and confusion. Sydney Street Siege, Churchill and ever evasive Peter in this one! Enjoy!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! This time, we take a look at a thing that I’ve wanted to make an ep for a long while. Latvian bomb throwing anarchists that came into being right after 1905. And Peter the Painter is the most famous of them all, literally being the reason why British cops walk everywhere armed. Involved with a firefight with Churchill himself, it’s an amazing story. Part 2 coming soon! Enjoy!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! This week, we return to the tank series once again, and we look at the…well…REALLY WEIRD ONE’S. With very little information to go about, I coulnd’t make an episode on each of them individually, so this is what you get. Enjoy! Oh, and visit our homepage Theeasternborder.lv for pics!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! As we skipped political episodes completely last month, it’s just fair that we start with something nice and positive in this one. I had a blast while making this, and in comparison, despite the title, this is a much more lighthearted episode than the previous one’s! Enjoy! Oh, and also listen to the very end please, we have a new outro now!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! This is Part 2 of Chechen wars, Part 1 is out too, and they're split for story reasons. This one’s STRICTLY 18+ and not recommended to people who’re squeamish or who get offended easily, and has literally every trigger warning related to violence ever.This…is for your consideration. For fairness, for those who fought. For you to understand how much true, animalistic, mad, pure hate shaped this conflict. And it is not nice.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades!This is a subject that I had wanted to cover for a while now. And once I starterd working on this, I understood that this time, people’s stories and actual history would definitely need to be separated. This part, although about war, is what I’d recommend everyone should listen. The people’s stories part….yeah, not so much. Also, our webpage is back, so go visit Theeasternborder.lv we've missed you!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! In this episode you'll hear the story of the greatest pyramid scheme in the Post-Soviet sphere, and possibly globally even. This is the story of Sergey Mavrodi, one of the most wicked, crazy men who've ever lived! Enjoy!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! While we're dealing with technical issues, have this...VERY dark episode about the ingenuity of post-Soviet prisoners. I'm glad I keep back up's. Man, this was hard to translate tho.Paypal: [email protected]: https://www.patreon.com/theeasternborderSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! So, our new ep on the whole "stealing the plane" affair is here! Enjoy! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

And, as promised, Part 2 is here too.Hope you'll like this, and if you didn't hear this before there is a part 1, just look at it in your podcast player, listen to it before this one!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings Comrades! Part 1 of our Mayak episode, P2 coming tomorrow. You'll hear everything yourselves, basically. But we had to split this in two, it got too long and too weird. Then again, it's Mayak - the WORST place to work on the planet! Enjoy, this one's weird!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! Sorry, we launched the wrong version yesterday. That's due to us, using dates as internal naming, so we accidentally published the 07-04-2021 ep instead of the 07-05-2021 one. This is the proper episode, with fixed audio. Been wanting to do this for a while, and after talking with folks on Twitter, decided to finally talk about my favourite sport - football. The European variety of, as it's lately seen a lot of issues, but for that to be interesting I had to explain how the leagues work and all that. So, I do that here. This is a bit unorthodox ep, but I sincerely hope you'll like it. Enjoy!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! Roman von Ungern-Sternberg was a completely classy guy. If by classy, you mean mad as a hatter and completely murderous! Enjoy his story! Also - thank You everyone who's supporting the show, at this point, it looks like we could get the webpage back in about two weeks or so. You're the best!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! This is a bit shorter than usual, but everything gets explained in the show. Well...except what Putin meant in his "state of the union" address, as that was just weird this year.Please, consider supporting the show, so we can get our website back asap! This farm experience has hurt us quite a bit. Our paypal is [email protected] and our patreon is patreon.com/theeasternborder - and if you don't enjoy either option, you can email us - [email protected]. Thank You very much beforehand.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! This time we’re discussing the wholesome, family friendly subject of taking your 8 year old, giving him guns and combat training and mental preparedness to sacrifice his life in the struggle against Putin’s enemies! YunArmiya, or ‘The Youth Army’ of Russia. Enjoy!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! I honestly didn’t want to make an episode like this, but the recent escalation hit me hard. As you know, I reported from Donbass at one point, so it’s quite hard imagining everything going up in flames again. Let’s hope it doesn’t happen. But…for now, I’m forced to tell you why it just might.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.