The Eastern Border

Greetings, Comrades! This episode is all about Soviet urban legends, straight from the USSR army! Enjoy! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! This ep is all about how and why Navalny wasn't avarded the Nobel peace prize, but was instead awarded the Sakharov prize. And Sakharov, who actually was awarded the Nobel peace prize. Look...it's complicated! Enjoy! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! This time, it's Soviet Schools and how to survive them. Managed to grab some interviews just before the crazy lockdowns started! Enjoy! T-Shirt market on the page, incoming! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Heyhey, Comrades! We interviewed the creators of ATOM RPG two years ago, when their original Post-Soviet oldschool RPG game came out. And...now there's a sequel, named Trudograd! And we're IN IT! DJ Kristaps lives! It's like a dream come true! Anyways, I've got some free Steam keys for this amazing game, so if you want a copy, do let me know! And if you're not among the lucky few, please do suppor...

Greetings, Comrades! Ohboy. After this utterly bizzare Eastern European team from literally the weirdest country in Europe managed to beat Real Madrid at home…yeah, had to provide some explanation of why you should absolutely care about Sheriff! Soviet Schools next. Enjoy! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1908, a huge ball of flame struck Siberian countryside. For the eyewitnesses, it was as if the world was ending, for scientists of the day, a magnificent astronomical event and for the conspiracy theorists a splendid source of weirdness. Seriously tho, it was aslo quite lucky that it fell there, in the middle of nowhere and not, say, on Paris or London or somewhere like that. It’s a cool little...

So, over the weekend there was a three day event in Russia, concerning gosduma where they went to the ballots, threw in some papers and then some of those papers were pulled out and shredded and some more were stuffed in and the remaining papers were counted with people doing so, pretending that it matters. It was a bit of a comedy, bit of a mess, United Russia's still in power. This ep's all abou...

Greetings, Comrades! Today we continue our story about the weird and innovative flying boat plane things! Enjoy! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! In this episode, we look at the weirdest and most amazing Soviet achievement in transportation technology, the Ekranoplan! Notably, the caspian sea monster. Enjoy! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! This episode turned out weird. I mean…EXTRA weird. What was meant to be about just how Belarus is using poor souls as their political weapon turned into somehting else when the migrants just…dissappeared. Not even kidding. Also, yeah, there will be only 3 eps this month, due to how insanely difficult it was to make this one and Kristaps’s birthday is on the 28th. So if you can...

Greetings, Comrades! Today, we’re looking at the weird and interesting history of computers and cybernetics as it were in the Soviet Union. Because now and then, I’d like to cover topics that are actually, you know, NOT terribly depressing. Also, don’t forget to check out Advent of Computing podcast, and enjoy! Happiness is Mandatory! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder ....

Greetings, Comrades! Part 2 of the Peter the Painter is here. Sorry about the weird way how I speak, I’ve understood that I should NEVER rely on translations made by other people, because this…this was so weird that it got me a massive headache and confusion. Sydney Street Siege, Churchill and ever evasive Peter in this one! Enjoy! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Ho...

Greetings, Comrades! This time, we take a look at a thing that I’ve wanted to make an ep for a long while. Latvian bomb throwing anarchists that came into being right after 1905. And Peter the Painter is the most famous of them all, literally being the reason why British cops walk everywhere armed. Involved with a firefight with Churchill himself, it’s an amazing story. Part 2 coming soon! Enjoy!...

Greetings, Comrades! This week, we return to the tank series once again, and we look at the…well…REALLY WEIRD ONE’S. With very little information to go about, I coulnd’t make an episode on each of them individually, so this is what you get. Enjoy! Oh, and visit our homepage Theeasternborder.lv for pics! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast. See acast...

Greetings, Comrades! As we skipped political episodes completely last month, it’s just fair that we start with something nice and positive in this one. I had a blast while making this, and in comparison, despite the title, this is a much more lighthearted episode than the previous one’s! Enjoy! Oh, and also listen to the very end please, we have a new outro now! Support this show http://supporter....

Greetings, Comrades! This is Part 2 of Chechen wars, Part 1 is out too, and they're split for story reasons. This one’s STRICTLY 18+ and not recommended to people who’re squeamish or who get offended easily, and has literally every trigger warning related to violence ever. This…is for your consideration. For fairness, for those who fought. For you to understand how much true, animalistic, mad, pur...

Greetings, Comrades! This is a subject that I had wanted to cover for a while now. And once I starterd working on this, I understood that this time, people’s stories and actual history would definitely need to be separated. This part, although about war, is what I’d recommend everyone should listen. The people’s stories part….yeah, not so much. Also, our webpage is back, so go visit Theeasternbord...

Greetings, Comrades! In this episode you'll hear the story of the greatest pyramid scheme in the Post-Soviet sphere, and possibly globally even. This is the story of Sergey Mavrodi, one of the most wicked, crazy men who've ever lived! Enjoy! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! While we're dealing with technical issues, have this...VERY dark episode about the ingenuity of post-Soviet prisoners. I'm glad I keep back up's. Man, this was hard to translate tho. Paypal: ihatebalrog@gmail.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theeasternborder Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...

Greetings, Comrades! So, our new ep on the whole "stealing the plane" affair is here! Enjoy! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

And, as promised, Part 2 is here too. Hope you'll like this, and if you didn't hear this before there is a part 1, just look at it in your podcast player, listen to it before this one! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings Comrades! Part 1 of our Mayak episode, P2 coming tomorrow. You'll hear everything yourselves, basically. But we had to split this in two, it got too long and too weird. Then again, it's Mayak - the WORST place to work on the planet! Enjoy, this one's weird! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greetings, Comrades! Sorry, we launched the wrong version yesterday. That's due to us, using dates as internal naming, so we accidentally published the 07-04-2021 ep instead of the 07-05-2021 one. This is the proper episode, with fixed audio. Been wanting to do this for a while, and after talking with folks on Twitter, decided to finally talk about my favourite sport - football. The European varie...

Greetings, Comrades! Roman von Ungern-Sternberg was a completely classy guy. If by classy, you mean mad as a hatter and completely murderous! Enjoy his story! Also - thank You everyone who's supporting the show, at this point, it looks like we could get the webpage back in about two weeks or so. You're the best! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder . Hosted on Acast. See a...

Greetings, Comrades! This is a bit shorter than usual, but everything gets explained in the show. Well...except what Putin meant in his "state of the union" address, as that was just weird this year. Please, consider supporting the show, so we can get our website back asap! This farm experience has hurt us quite a bit. Our paypal is ihatebalrog@gmail.com and our patreon is patreon.com/theeasternbo...