The Eastern Border

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!

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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!

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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!

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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-S9d2M

However, 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_r

And here’s their facebook group where you can get all the news about his movie and the upcoming one’s https://www.facebook.com/landofbluelakes

Enjoy!

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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!

Oh, and please, consider becoming our patron at patreon.com/theeasternborder or donating via the link on our homepage, theeasternborder.lv

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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