The Eastern Border

Greetings, Comrades!

This is a re-upload because acast went haywire last year.

This year, Grandfather Frost brings you a whole new episode, very work-intensive, about how it’s like to be an opposition journalist in Russia…and how it’s like to be in the Eastern European media, talking about Russia in general. Together with analytics, and reports on the latest events. And some jokes. Because why not. Enjoy!

In addition, links, promised in the episode:

Medusa.io English site: https://meduza.io/en

Real Russian News youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChpUzS-wzKjaT-2HPoQeLiQ

Vata.TV, special greetings to those guys: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa2DyezQaSMK81FbYkHZM_g

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Greetings, Comrades! Today’s episode has it all! Sneaky deception, warfare, guns, riots, police violence, drama, philosophy, a theory that Rosewell incident was caused by Stalin and Mengele working together… I hope you enjoy it. If someone guesses the name of the next ep, they get an extra souvenir in mail! Great day for you, Comrades!

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Greetings, Comrades! 

This time, thanks to the KGB research commitee, we can enjoy some very real criminal cases about smuggling in the USSR. It's pretty great, as we found out that a Latvian/Swedish teacher can just swindle a smuggling gang, and that smuggling gang should be called "Nylon Mafia" anyways. Also, according to theme, here's a link to our card game - made by a listener John - about smuggling. https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/kontrabanda We hope to work more with the KGB research guys in the future, and while you're waiting for the next Stalin - enjoy this weird episode!

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My voice’s not perfect already, but by jingo, we really need to get through World War One, so that we can finally do the revolution again in the next episode. And…well, as it turns out, the revolution was possible, because the Bolsheviks were the only guys against the war in the Russian empire…and so, they weren’t sent to die in the front lines against the German and Austrian machine guns, but instead were sent to exile in Siberia, which was really, really far from machine guns. Including Stalin, who, by now used to this, enjoyed the whole process. Again. And sent many letters. It’s a complex issue, but kind of fun, as there actually were people who could stop him then and there, but then they all died.

Enjoy!

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Greetings, Comrades!

I currently have no voice, due to illness. So, Alice took over for this episode, and did it her own style. So, what we have here is a very hardcore episode, containing the look in the life of a true Soviet woman in the year of 1960 – because we had ALL the Latvian Soviet Woman magazines from that year, which allows for a very interesting perspective. Both of the good things and bad. Enjoy!

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Greetings, Comrades!

I've been really ill past week. You'll hear that on the show. And, besides watching Stalin documentaries to fall asleep, and history of Crimea for a future episode, I went full zombie mode...and experienced Russian news. Being unable to think clearly and in massive pain is the only way how a reasonable person could take this on. This episode goes weird, really fast. Enjoy! Also, please visit theeasternborder.lv for all the source links, as that list is too long to publish here.

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Greetings, Comrades! 

Our new Stalin ep is here again. By this time, Stalin and Exile have become comedy terms. But there are unfunny things in this episode too. Enjoy!

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Greetings, Comrades!

We bring you the latest episode of October, the one about InTourist, and the very weird experience of being a foreign tourist in the USSR! Hope you’ll love it! Enjoy! And no, I won't be giving lengthy descriptions of the episode, Not today! :D

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Greetings, Comrades! Today’s episode was made out of schedule, but it was so timely, and so urgent, that I just had to do it. Special thanks to Travis J. Dow, my Dark Myths colleague and friend from the Bohemican podcast (and many others) for inspiration here. It’s about radicalism in Russia, about trolls, about how your opinion can easily be swayed and what you should watch out for. I mean, they got me! I was outraged about what turned out to be totally fake news last week. So, instead of being angry at people who’re literally burning cinemas in Russia because of a movie about Nicholas the 2nd, I got worried about…nonsense. Anyhow, very complex episode, hope that you’ll like it, but for the most part – this is supposed to remind everyone that in this modern day, everyone needs to adjust their angry reactions for the likely possibility of trolling. Enjoy. Stalin coming monday or tuesda

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Greetings, Comrades! Today, I want to give you an episode about something completely different. About one of the…strangest..communes out there. I’ve been wanting to make an episode about this sub-denomination of the Orthodox church and their weird destinies for a while now, so now that I had the chance, I did. And It came out as one strange episode. Hope you’ll like it!

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