The Eastern Border

The Eastern Border

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The Eastern Border episodes

  • 2.19 Planet of Pink Ponies
    The digital iron curtain just fell. This week, we dive into the total communications blackout in Moscow and St. Petersburg as the Kremlin panics over [...]
    47 min
  • 2.21 Zero Day At The Ivory Tower
    Greetings, Comrades. I…I seriously do not even. You’ll listen to this, and you will think that I’m crazy, BUT…well, when I say, try running those [...]
    43 min
  • Dark Autumn for Russia
    Comrades, welcome to a special audio-only broadcast of The Eastern Border. (Using the classic thumbnail to mark this one—we are stepping away from the daily [...]
    57 min
  • 2.23 The Slow Freeze
    Welcome back to The Eastern Border. While Western “Pink Pony” analysts look at top-line GDP numbers and declare the Russian war machine an unstoppable juggernaut, [...]
    57 min
  • 2.24 The Black Rain
    Today, we are opening the body bag and performing a brutal autopsy on the Russian state. We track the physical decay from the burning refineries [...]
    50 min
  • 2.25 Dendro-Fecal Imperium
    The Big Deal is dead. Welcome to the Dendro-Fecal Empire. While the Russian elites party in Dubai and the spreadsheet-watchers promise economic stability, the physical [...]
    51 min
  • 2.26 The Great Mattress Raid
    The global oil market has shifted, and the UAE just handed the Kremlin an armor-piercing reality check. In Episode 2.26, we document the final, terminal [...]
    37 min
  • 2.27 Cuckoldry Day
    Welcome to the 81st anniversary of Victory Day—the year the “Collector of Russian Lands” officially became a sub-letter of his own history. In this special [...]
    38 min

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Soviet Union and shaping current Russia and it’s Government and Ideologies. The government of the USSR. History of the Soviet rule. Laws, culture and everyday life of a Soviet citizen. What did they see? How did they get by? What did they go through? And what is left after the collapse of USSR?