The Eastern Border

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This is my account on the events in the Russian elections, together with some analysis. Normally, I don't insist on it, but, please, if you can, share it and recommend to people, who want to know how things actually went down. One thing, that really matters tho, is that while this episode was being edited, Zhirinovsky already managed to declare, that United Russia plans to abolish elections, and create some sort of a grand council, which would hold all the power, and where the membership would be for life. And yes, it is Zhirinovsky, but hey...like I said, he's an over the top mouthpiece. But a mouthpiece still.

Enjoy. We live in very interesting times.

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Sorry for being…well, let’s just say, not-as-much in time with our episodes. We’re plagued with deep personal issues at this time, and to be frank, making the show is the thing that keeps me sane. This episode covers the recent news about Russia, and is intended to be a follow-up to the PWC Wagner episode. Covering the nuclear threats, new weapons Putin presented in his “state of the union” speech and what were the political reasons of him doing so. Also, any and all paypal donations/patreon support very much appreciated. Thank you, everyone, and I hope you’ll enjoy this episode. I’m just gathering strength to continue right now, but…we’ll march on. Happiness is Mandatory after all.

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This is a special episode, that I have to publish now, because I’ll have to give the source book away. But it’s a glorious book – “Tales from the great congress”, which is a review of the all-communist party congress in 1939. It’s full with tasty propaganda and excellent stuff. Hope you’ll enjoy this episode – and I apologize for my deep sarcasm in places. It was a natural reaction to blatant lies, and frankly – being honestly stunned by this book.

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Today, we look at Stalin’s personal life, his views on capitalism (which weren’t very pleasant) and how the bolsheviks experienced minor issues with the whole “war communism” thing. You know…destitute poverty, misery, cannibalism, crime, famine…nothing that death camps can’t solve!

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This episode covers the events on the 7th to 8th of February in Syria, where American-led coalition forces, in a counterattack, while defending their base, basically annihilated a large number of Russian soldiers from the Private Warfare Company “Wagner”. Now, there already have been news about the “what” part, but I delve into the “why” and deeper reasons of the whole thing, on the Russian side. Both, why would people go and fight, who owns the “Wagner” and all the other, quite deeply philosophical stuff. Ugh. This is a hard one.

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We’re in the middle of a move now. And working hard. And our PC died. Nonetheless, this week, we have an interview with the She’s In Russia podcast girls, who invited me to their show, and I think it went really nice, so so check them out!

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Turns out, doing dubbed-over interviews, that are translated as-is from Russian to English, like we set out to do with mr. Potapenko’s interview, takes a lot more time than expected. So, this time, have another Stalin episode, while we deal with the dubbing and everything. Also, there’s always time for more Stalin! Especially since this episode covers his rivalry with Trotsky, what Stalin and his gang did during the civil war, and in the end, we also talk about Latvian Red Riflemen a bit. Enjoy!

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This time, after all the previous super serious episodes (and the serious interview with Dmitry Potapenko and more Stalin, both incoming) we decided to do some laid-back, chill discussion about one of our favourite subjects: The Cossacks. And Daniel, is, as you all know, a foremost expert of the subject from his history podcasting days. We had a nice discussion, and it felt good, not to talk about tremendous tragedies or personal suffering or translating formal regulations of the secret police…you get the idea. This is just a fun, laid-back episode, where we finally have some fun ourselves. Enjoy!

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With the help of our academical friends in the Latvian KGB research center, we acquired a very interesting document: “Regulations of the USSR KGB “On the agency apparatus and trustworthy persons in the USSR State Security Committee”, from 1983. Yes, it’s authentic, and as, I couldn’t find a full, widely available English translation on the internet. So…I translated the whole thing. If anyone is interested in reading it themselves, I’ll be glad to share. I hope you’ll find this interesting, as this is a bit more dry episode – I wanted the text to speak for itself, explaining only the very necessary things. But…making jokes about this text felt a bit wrong. Enjoy!

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Greetings Comrades! As you can see, this part’s name, together with the last part’s name makes a pun. Yeah, it’s a brick joke. It’s blunt, same as what I’ll do now. With the “reality shifts” made by Stalin later in place, and with this period being covered in the Lenin series, this episode got stuck in development hell, and ended up a bit…awkward, by the end. But we’ll make it up, and it’s necessary. Hope you’ll like it, despite it’s flaws. This period in time is a bit weird. Enjoy!

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