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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?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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Language:

en-US

Release Date:

04/08/2021 03:06:07

Authors:

Curonian

Genres:

society

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Episodes

    War in Ukraine: Episode 277

    Release Date: 4/2/2025

    Duration: 65 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Once again, the Moscow Economics Forum is upon us, and there are some truly bizzare speakers. Like Dugin for example. Of course, Girkin’s buddies react [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 276

    Release Date: 3/29/2025

    Duration: 38 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Ramzan Kadyrov has gotten himself into real trouble with Kremlin. Girkin reacts to the truce at sea and Moscow Patriachate has decided to turn Dota [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 275

    Release Date: 3/26/2025

    Duration: 50 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: This week, vatniks were busy writing about Russia’s future after the war and how it should function – which is in stark contrast with reality [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    It could be worse, pt. 2

    Release Date: 3/23/2025

    Duration: 70 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Part 2 of my discussion with Alex from History Impossible and Jack from Secret Police Podcast. Some deep dives into geopolitics and what would secret [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 274

    Release Date: 3/21/2025

    Duration: 47 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Russian economical voes have caught up to it’s healthcare industry – abulances are woefully slow and certain meds are unavailable. (MD’s listening to this will [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 273

    Release Date: 3/18/2025

    Duration: 39 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Welcome to the…ermm…Orange Border, I suppose. I continue to work here, as the Russian economy is still in the mud – and vatniks are dreading [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    It Could Be Worse, pt. 1

    Release Date: 3/15/2025

    Duration: 84 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: A long and complex chat about geopolitics with History Impossible, Secret Police Podcast and When Diplomacy Fails.

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 272

    Release Date: 3/6/2025

    Duration: 41 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Vatniks are confused about Russia’s relationship with the USA, Putin’s secret service officers get paid 900$ per month so have to become part-time delivery workers [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    The end of the world as we know it. (But we’ll be fine.)

    Release Date: 3/1/2025

    Duration: 36 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: I was supposed to have a day off today, but then Trump and Vance literally destroyed the geopolitical, rules-based order of the world that had [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    Flow – a miracle from Latvia

    Release Date: 2/28/2025

    Duration: 18 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: I made this breather episode about a truly great animated movie from Latvia that’s got a golden globe and is now nominated for an Oscar, [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine 271 : Ukraine War Dictionary

    Release Date: 2/27/2025

    Duration: 34 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: A dictionary of the terms used by soldiers on the front and Z-vatniks, made with the help of my Ukrainian friends at the front – [...]

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    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine Episode 270: 3rd Anniversary

    Release Date: 2/24/2025

    Duration: 45 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: The third anniversary of this nightmare. Vatniks are full of doom and sadness, same as the Russian economy. There’s also some news from Girkin.

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 269

    Release Date: 2/20/2025

    Duration: 41 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Everyone’s going full WTF right now, because Trump’s made a massive blunder in the peace negotiations. Including vatniks. We’ve no idea what’s going on, and [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 268

    Release Date: 2/17/2025

    Duration: 40 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: What to watch for in the incoming peace talks. What Putin wants and why – and what he probably doesn’t care about. Z-vatniks lament the [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 267

    Release Date: 2/14/2025

    Duration: 41 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Z-vatniks continue to react to Ukraine peace talks. They are NOT happy, and they don’t see it as any form of victory. Instead, they’re becoming [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 266

    Release Date: 2/12/2025

    Duration: 41 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Updates about the Kursk region. Girkin’s officially sad now. Z-vatniks experience troubles from Kremlin – everything indicates that Putin’s preparing a crackdown on these “turbopatriots”.

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 265

    Release Date: 2/7/2025

    Duration: 43 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Igor Girkin and other Z-vatniks write about how Russia’s doomed in case of an armistice, Russian army gets delivered military donkeys and Ukraine makes a [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    Homo Sovieticus and the utter darkness of an existential void

    Release Date: 2/6/2025

    Duration: 50 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Greetings, Comrades! This should be treated as the sequel to my Terminal stage of Homo Sovieticus episode. The independent Russian opposition media ‘Verstka’ did another [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    The weird story of Sokol Kazan

    Release Date: 2/2/2025

    Duration: 23 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: This episode is very unlike my regular stuff – but a contact of mine from Russia sent me a sports story that is just so [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    Secrets of the LGBT Industry ft. Gabe

    Release Date: 1/31/2025

    Duration: 75 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: A sincere and very human talk with my friend and a listener of the show, Gabriel a.k.a Lord Grapefruit about transgender issues. What the Z-vatniks [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 264

    Release Date: 1/30/2025

    Duration: 46 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Russia’s reaction to Trump’s ultimatums. Angry at first, then predictably sad – Igor Girkin has given lengthy comments as well. And a Russian scientist gets [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    Peculiarities of the National Special Military Operation

    Release Date: 1/22/2025

    Duration: 46 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: This episode’s named a bit differently, because I owe a moral debt to the honorable and proud nation of Louxembourg. But it fits – as [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 263

    Release Date: 1/18/2025

    Duration: 44 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Dugin complains, that Russians are interested only in money. Which makes sense, seeing as their country is about to run out. Solovyev produces a massive [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 262

    Release Date: 1/15/2025

    Duration: 46 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Opposition analysts look at the Democrats and especially Jake Sullivan and their numerous failures related to the war, meanwhile Z-vatniks are extra worried that a societal [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 261

    Release Date: 1/13/2025

    Duration: 42 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: I finally completed the economy episode, that I had promised long ago. With some…well…economically philosophical essays by a few very well respected Russian opposition economists. [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    Viktors Alksnis and Russian propaganda machine

    Release Date: 1/9/2025

    Duration: 41 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: This year started with an infamous traitor to Latvian people dying in Russia. I wanted to talk about this guy, who also happens to be [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 260

    Release Date: 1/6/2025

    Duration: 49 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: In this episode, we take a look of the Russian economy and what the main news stories not related to the war were in Russian [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 259

    Release Date: 1/4/2025

    Duration: 45 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Latvian Public Broadcaster has an interesting research on the Russian “liberal opposition” journalists, Ukrainian drone advancements shock Z-vatniks and Transnistria is collapsing.

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 258

    Release Date: 12/31/2024

    Duration: 45 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Azeri president Aliyev scores a powerful diplomatical haymaker, bruising Putin’s ego, vatniks are losing the will to live and…well…Happiness is mandatory for You in the [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 257

    Release Date: 12/27/2024

    Duration: 40 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Ramzan Kadyrov gets more air defence, uses it to shoot down a civilian Azerbaijani plane. Russia now has a law that will put a fee [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 256

    Release Date: 12/20/2024

    Duration: 42 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: General who spewed the “biolab” nonsense killed; Putin spends over 4 hours, spewing nonsense and irritates Z-vatniks; Russian Central Bank thinks it can get the [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 255

    Release Date: 12/15/2024

    Duration: 45 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Vatniks have now reached the point of irrepairable cognitive dissonance. Russian economy is doing horribly bad, mobilized realize that they probably won’t have any carreer [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 254

    Release Date: 12/11/2024

    Duration: 40 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Reaction to the collapse in Syria. Girkin’s buddies plotting to take power at the right moment. Russian economy is basically in the drain…and Ramzan Kadyrov [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 253

    Release Date: 12/6/2024

    Duration: 43 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Actually, I should’ve just called this episode War in Syria. But, as usual, it all ties together as we’re seeing a second front open up…and [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 252

    Release Date: 11/30/2024

    Duration: 36 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: While I was preparing for an economy episode, major events in Syria happened. Oh, and the Russian army is taking away cars from the front [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine 251: Nuclear Farce

    Release Date: 11/26/2024

    Duration: 83 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Yeah, this is a long one – lots of important things happened during my vacation, which just shows that I’m not alllowed to relax. I [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    Making sense about countrybuilding with Alex from History Impossible

    Release Date: 11/17/2024

    Duration: 92 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: As I’m about to go to a short vacation to The Netherlands, I’m bringing You my discussion with our friend Alex from History Impossible podcast, [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 250

    Release Date: 11/16/2024

    Duration: 30 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Russia’s playing the blame game on chemical weapons use, while showing their use by their own soldiers on national television, Z-vatniks complain that Orwell’s “1984” [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Epsode 249

    Release Date: 11/12/2024

    Duration: 27 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Two audio recordings from folks in important positions in Russia reveal problems in the military-industrial complex and show that meat assaults are a feature, not [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    Russia reacts to Trump’s election

    Release Date: 11/7/2024

    Duration: 2277 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: I waited for a day before making this, and it was well worth it. Because now we have a speech by Putin and reactions from [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 248

    Release Date: 11/5/2024

    Duration: 1674 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Allthough I’ve caught a cold and sound pretty miserable, I decided to release this one before everyone is 100% focused on the election results. Putin’s [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 247

    Release Date: 10/31/2024

    Duration: 2736 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Maxim Kalashnikov writes about what are the wins and losses of USA in this war – and talks about the systemic issues of the Russian [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    Lines on maps that we didn’t even know about

    Release Date: 10/27/2024

    Duration: 62 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: In today’s episode I am joined by our friend Michael (who claims to actually be Prigozhin) from The Red Line podcast. He, together with his [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 246

    Release Date: 10/24/2024

    Duration: 2731 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Girkin sends another letter from prison – agreeing with Ukraininan analysts and following my predictions about what’s gonna happen with Russia in the future. Kremlin’s [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    The terminal stage of Homo Sovieticus

    Release Date: 10/18/2024

    Duration: 69 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: In this episode, you’ll find out why people are willing to go to certain death for 20,000$, why more and more of them are aged [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 245

    Release Date: 10/16/2024

    Duration: 2792 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Zelensky’s victory plan, another letter from Girkin, and “dragon’s teeth” doing massive sabotage in the Russian rear. And, well, more. This time, darker than usual, [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 244

    Release Date: 10/12/2024

    Duration: 1999 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Gang warfare in Caucasus returns and they don’t waste time. Ramzan Kadyrov and Chechen gangs vs. Ingushetia and Dagestan and their own gangs. Criminalization of [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 243

    Release Date: 10/7/2024

    Duration: 3004 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Ukraine’s returned to the oil refinery bingo, Russian opposition squabbles among themselves, investigation confirms what we all knew – that Navalny got poisoned – and [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 242

    Release Date: 10/4/2024

    Duration: 2190 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: Russian problems with drones at the front. Also Maxim Kalashnikov explains his GLORIOUS (extreme sarcasm) plans for the future of Russia. Which is basically modern [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

    War in Ukraine: Episode 241

    Release Date: 9/30/2024

    Duration: 2198 Mins

    Authors: Curonian

    Description: First of all, congratulations (no, seriously) to North Korea’s U20 women’s soccer team. And in the more serious news, analysis why the ideological fithers of [...]

    Is Closed Captioned: No

    Explicit: No

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