Curonian

The Eastern Border

Society EN ↓ 100 episodes

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!

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Curonian

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Society

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theeasternborder.lv

Latest episode

Jul 8, 2026

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Episodes

2.22 The Terminal Matrix: 404 Empire Not Found 15.04.2026

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 [...]

2.21 Zero Day At The Ivory Tower 07.04.2026

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 [...]

2.20 The Asymmetrical Humiliation: Or Else, What? 02.04.2026

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 [...]

2.19 Planet of Pink Ponies 31.03.2026

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 [...]

2.18 Everything Must Go 20.03.2026

The Russian state is no longer an empire; it is a bankrupt cartel running a terminal liquidation sale. In this episode, we wade into the [...]

2.17 Relegation, Russian Style 19.03.2026

The front office is panicking, the franchise player just demanded a trade, and the owner is literally burning down the stadium to pay the referees. [...]

2.16 It’s The Economy, Stupid! 18.03.2026

“It’s the economy, stupid.” The Russian Federation is in full rigor mortis. In this massive, breaking-news episode of The Eastern Border, we conduct a full [...]

2.15 The Z-Files 16.03.2026

Greetings, comrades, and welcome back to the bunker. Today, we’re broadcasting live from The Eagles—just 22 kilometers from the Russian border—and stepping straight into the [...]

2.14 Zone of death, part 2 13.03.2026

Welcome back to the bunker for the second half of our massive deep dive into the accelerating collapse of the Russian Federation. In Part 1, [...]

Episode 2.14: The Zone of Death (Part 1) 11.03.2026

Welcome back to the bunker. The bureaucratic backlog has cleared, and we are diving straight into the abyss. The Russian civilian economy has officially entered [...]

2.13 The Axis Burns: F-35s in Tehran & Putin’s 30 Trillion Ruble Crater 04.03.2026

While the physical fires are kept burning with a metric ton of heating pellets here in the freezing Latvian buffer zone, the geopolitical cesspool has [...]

2.12 Elves are useless: An Official Apology to Sauron and all the Orcs of Mordor 26.02.2026

Welcome to the geopolitical cesspool. Today, we are taking a hard look at the crumbling, jury-rigged mafia state operating just across the border, and the [...]

2.11 System Failure: 4 years of Mafia State At War 24.02.2026

Greetings, Comrades! Four years ago, the Russian military establishment thought they were going to hold a victory parade in Kyiv within 72 hours. Today, the [...]

2.10 Perestroika 2.0 & The Great Silence 21.02.2026

The biological attack on the studio continues! With Kristaps completely out of commission battling a nasty flu and an eye infection, Evita takes the mic [...]

2.9 Once Again About Cucumbers (and The Ghost Offensive) 19.02.2026

Greetings, comrades! The “Voice of the Eastern Border” has temporarily fallen victim to a biological attack (the flu), so today, Evita is taking over the [...]

2.8 How Starlink & Telegram Killed the Russian Front 12.02.2026

Greetings, Comrades! It finally happened. The Russian army has achieved its long-awaited dream of total independence from Western technology—by getting kicked off the server. For [...]

2.7 The Butter Crisis & The Banana Fleet 07.02.2026

In this episode, we look at a Superpower that has forgotten to pay its internet bill. From the Baltic Sea—where the Russian Navy recently surrendered [...]

2.6 The Price of Dirt 30.01.2026

Greeting Comrades, and welcome to the frozen bunker in Ludza. In this episode, we aren’t just analyzing the collapse of the Russian Empire; we are [...]

2.5 Fate/Stay Blyat. The Warlords of the Apocalypse. 27.01.2026

Greetings from Pilda, It is the coldest January in thirty years. Outside my window, the thermometer is dropping, and I have just finished hauling 150kg [...]

2.4 When the War Goes Out of Fashion: Orthodox AI, Dead Economies & The German Hallucination (Audio only) 24.01.2026

Why did a German immigration officer deny asylum to a Russian torture victim by citing a press release from Sergei Shoigu? Why is the Russian [...]

2.3 The Republic of Fake 21.01.2026

From the frozen balconies of Rēzekne to the digital hallucinations of the Kremlin, the Russian Federation has become a “Republic of Fake.” In this episode, [...]

Kadyrov saga: Proof that Adam Kadyrov’s car crash did really happen and Kremlin’s cover-up exposed. 17.01.2026

I really think that you should be watching this in video format, but for those of you who prefer audio – well, who am I [...]

2.2 The Ice Age of the Z-Soul 16.01.2026

Video version on YouTube (with actual video this time – I fixed the lights)https://youtu.be/ArDauZSpDT8 In this episode of The Eastern Border, we strip away the [...]

Other Borders with Michael Hillard of The Red Line 11.01.2026

Greetings, Comrades! Today we are joined by our good friend Michael Hillard of The Red Line podcast to get updates about what’s going on in [...]

2.1 Z(ed) is Dead 05.01.2026

“Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.” In this episode of The Eastern Border, we dive into the surreal start of 2026. While the world watches the [...]

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