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 [...]
Greetings, comrades! In Episode 2.20: The Asymmetrical Humiliation, we examine the sheer, terminal absurdity of the Russian Federation’s bureaucratic collapse.The geopolitical gravity has inverted: Armenian [...]
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 [...]
Welcome back to the nightmare, comrades. In this feature-length episode, we take a brutal, unsparing look under the hood of the Russian Federation’s terminal bureaucratic [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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?
The other side of the cold war - talking about politics in the EU, history of the USSR and the Eastern European region in general. Mostly for Americans, who also happen to be history geeks. Also, we're all friends here, and have beer!