538 episodes
The Eastern Border Kristaps Andrejsons
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5.0 • 10 Ratings
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A podcast about the politics and the history of the eastern Europe - including, but not limited to the current state of Russia, politics of the EU, history of the USSR and the region in general.
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The Soviet Who Saved the World (ft. Alex from History Impossible)
While I was in Texas, enjoying the honeymoon I knew I had to record stuff, because the show won't wait for me, but I did not want to do heartbreaking stuff. Thankfully, Alex had listened to my pre-wedding episode, and wanted to dig deeper about our hero, Stanislav Petrov. We used the rare occasion of a much smaller time zone difference than usual and made this for You - which Alex also posted on his feed too. Enjoy!
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Western Border 2: Baseball Boogaloo
Part 2 of what we've learned and experienced in Texas. Don't worry, the episode with Alex about Stanislav Petrov is incoming, and so are horrible, depressing news about the war. Enjoy!
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Visiting the Political Orphanage, with Andrew Heaton
In this episode, I'm hanging out live with our friend Heaton and we discuss the war, terrorism, politics and other fun stuff that you can't stop thinking about on a honeymoon. Enjoy!
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Western Border: Texas Special
Greetings, Comrades! We're just married, in Texas, and saw NASA stuff. Back to news stuff on wednesday!
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War in Ukraine: Episode 214
This is one of those episodes where I am riding the: "Okay, I was off for a few days, now I'm married, so what's happe...oh...oh no" Well, at least we also have Girkin news.
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Hero of all Mankind. Stanislav Petrov.
Greetings, Comrades! I'm gettinng married in a few hours. And on this special day, I wanted to give you a bit of a throwback, Soviet history episode...with a message that is relevant even today.
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Customer Reviews
In between the memories and the background information
For a Soviet kid born in late eighties this show open eyes to why life was as it was during the first years of my life as most of it just happened without any explanation as I was just a child. Thank you, Kristaps! Great job!
Back to USSR
Some interesting bits and pieces to find, even for those who had chance to experience soviet socialism blessings on them selves. Furthermore this is not “USSR was total crap” type of podcast. Rather it quite accurately reflects on many virtues of that era within Eastern Europe. Presented in fun and engaging manner.
this podcast == closes thing to mind-reading you can get
do you know anyone living in either russia or one of the ex-ussr-occupied-states? do you want to know how their minds work? this podcast is great at enlightening you about what the world that shaped their minds was like.
i personally feel like i better understand my fellow latvians that are older and actually had to live through the dumpster-fire that was ussr.
***** (5 stars)