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!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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Happiness is Mandatory!

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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!

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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!

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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!

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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!” /Michael

Link to The Red Line podcast:

https://www.theredlinepodcast.com/

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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!

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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)

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