The Eastern Border

The Eastern Border

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The Eastern Border episodes

  • 2.38 Existential Fanfiction
    Happy Anniversary to The Eastern Border! We are celebrating the madness of the post-Soviet space by watching the Russian Federation actively cannibalize its own economy [...]
    52 min
  • The Eastern Border x Operator Starsky
    Another of our collaboration episodes for the anniversary month! This time, with our good friend Operator Starsky! Trigger warning: There is mention of intimate activities [...]
    1 hr 3 min
  • 2.39 Vranyo for Dummies
    The global gas station has run out of gas. In Episode 2.39 of The Eastern Border, we pull back the heavy curtain of “Vranyo”—the mandatory, [...]
    1 hr 2 min
  • 2.40 Fraud Watch
    Welcome back to the studio at the edge of the empire. Today, the institutional lying known as Vranyo has officially collided with a physical, unyielding [...]
    51 min
  • 2.41 All Hail Hypnotoad
    The Russian state isn’t just collapsing; it’s being quietly appraised for a corporate buyout. In Episode 2.41, we dive into the terminal loop of the [...]
    45 min
  • 2.42 The Pantyhose Filter
    Welcome back to the edge of the empire. In Episode 2.42, the grand illusion of the “Long War” officially crashes into a 69-hour line for [...]
    48 min
  • 2.43 …but it sometimes rhymes
    The software patches on the Kremlin’s digital autocracy have officially failed, and the nineteenth-century Tsarist operating system underneath is throwing rods in real time. In [...]
    1 hr
  • 2.44 August Without an Emperor
    August has always been a bad month for the Russian Empire. In this comprehensive Eastern European Gonzo brief, Kristaps Andrejsons rips through the sanitized corporate [...]
    1 hr 14 min

About The Eastern Border

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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?