The Eastern Border

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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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!

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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. 

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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_Georgia

https://www.facebook.com/TheHistoryOfSaqartveloGeorgia

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmdK0d7XlcKe_gX2ZcjmF3Q

https://www.instagram.com/thehistoryofsaqartvelogeorgia/

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Greetings, Comrades! This episode is all about Soviet urban legends, straight from the USSR army! Enjoy!

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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!

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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!

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