Skip to content
Sign in
Artwork for The Eastern Border
NewsHistorySociety & CultureDocumentaryExplicit

The Eastern Border

Kristaps Andrejsons

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.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Play
Open in
  • 30 episodes
  • Avg 1 hr 6 min
  • English

Episodes 30

NewestOldestLongest
All20Unplayed20In progress0Played0
Counted on this page — what you have heard stays on this device, so it is not something the list can be paged by.
  • S3 · E3
    Yesterday · 2 hr 35 min

    3.03 History of Non-Elections

    The Tsar rigged the math. The Soviets rigged the ritual. The Kremlin built a black box. 120 years of Russian elections, family testimony, and the 2026 Duma vote dissected.

  • S3 · E1
    September 15 · 1 hr 32 min

    3.01 Vranyo

    From the Gulag’s hollow log stacks to the Lyman OSINT trap, we dissect the terminal cancer of the Russian state: Vranyo. How a systemic lie destroyed the Soviet Union and is killing the Federation.

  • September 10 · 2 hr 11 min

    3.0 Hardcore Eastern Border (A Dan Carlin tribute)

    A Hardcore History sized Gonzo autopsy of Russia's upcoming doom: AI-faked victories, burning refineries, $124B burn rates, debt slaves, and a nuclear doomsday cult waiting for a miracle. Welcome to Münster.

  • S2 · E56
    September 6 · 46 min

    2.56 Rabid Dogs on a Broken Leash

    The Tsar hallucinates ceasefires while his military burns 340 men per square kilometer. Synthetic drugs rot Donetsk, Russian businesses flee to China, and the police prepare a war against veterans.

  • S2 · E55
    September 1 · 41 min

    2.55 They will hang me

    CIA Director John Ratcliffe didn’t fly to Moscow to negotiate with diplomats—he flew in to hand the FSB a spreadsheet proving the Russian Empire is mathematically dead. In this broadcast, we break down the secret intelligence dossier, the Lindsey Graham sanctions ultimatum, and the systemic panic tearing through the Kremlin. While Putin rambles on television about killer whales eating polar bears and inspects Chinese cars rebadged as "Volgas," the Russian state is quietly plunging its own provinces into a total digital blackout to prepare for the upcoming post-election draft. From the bankruptcy of the Russian agricultural heartland to frontline commanders using torture to seize real estate, we map the terminal collapse of the Panopticon. And at the center of it all is a terrified Tsar who admitted the real reason he can never hit the brakes: "They will hang me." Become our patron: https://www.patreon.com/theeasternborder Merch store + another option for memberships: https://theeasternborder-shop.fourthwall.com/ Follow what's going on here in the very border of Eastern Europe: https://bsky.app/profile/theeasternborder.lv Download all episodes for free on our website; pictures accompanying certain episodes can be found there as well! http://theeasternborder.lv/ Car4Ukraine Eastern Border Autumn Harvest Campaign! https://car4ukraine.com/campaigns/autumn-harvest-2026-the-eastern-border Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  • S2 · E54
    August 26 · 48 min

    Dark Autumn 3

    Leaked Sberbank files confirm the collapse: an $100B deficit, 7% victory odds, drone purges, and a CIA ultimatum in Moscow, tracked from post-cyclone Latgalian mud. Happiness is mandatory.

  • S2 · E53
    August 20 · 43 min

    2.53 TFUM

    The Russian state is a hedge fund facing a terminal margin call. We calculate the TFUM: from a 21-billion-ruble daily deficit to the Wildberries crater and the US military's M7 delusion.

  • S2 · E52
    August 17 · 1 hr 16 min

    2.52 Serfdom Forever!

    The demographic hemorrhage has become so catastrophic that Moscow is now renting North Korean serfs to roll sushi in the suburbs while Putin travels around the country to see modern Potemkin's villages.

  • S2 · E51
    August 14 · 48 min

    2.51 The Pirate, the Piglet, and the Cartel

    Metallica-themed autopsy of Russia's collapse. Fake maps, shadow draft of medics, 1,400km drone voids, Ouroboros economics, & Kadyrov's 36k army preparing for the North Caucasus cartel war.

  • S2 · E50
    August 12 · 43 min

    2.50 The 800,000 Ghosts

    Fake desk jobs, gold dumps, and 127 pigeons in court. A brutal Gonzo breakdown of Russia’s $70B deficit, 800,000 trapped conscripts, and the empire's terminal collapse.

  • S2 · E48
    July 31 · 51 min

    2.48 Dark Autumn for Russia 2

    Dark Autumn 2: The Ponyatiya filtered audits of our April predictions against ISW delusions as Russia's logistics spine burns, Wildberries collapses, and the cartel state enters terminal failure.

  • S2 · E47
    July 29 · 51 min

    2.47 I am a Bobbit Worm and I do "BLOOP"

    Ukrainian drone Bobbit worms snap Russian logistics in half. Crimean blackouts, digital Gosplan price-fixing, Z-sphere panic, and our official endorsement of Count Binface for Clacton.

  • S2 · E46
    July 27 · 59 min

    2.46: National Peculiarities of Russian Freemasonry

    From SVO Masonic lodges in Rostov to pawnshops charging 77% interest on wedding rings, Kristaps Andrejsons dissects the apocalyptic delusions, burning logistics, and final collapse of the Syndicate State.

  • S2 · E45
    July 24 · 1 hr 1 min

    2.45: The Wildberries Extinction Event

    As Ukraine’s drone campaign liquidates Russia’s Amazon and frontlines run out of gas, the Kremlin’s vranyo engine collapses into AI-generated lies, friendly fire, and pure Z-patriot panic.

  • S2 · E44
    July 11 · 1 hr 13 min

    2.44 August Without an Emperor

    A cold, deadpan autopsy of the late-Putin collapse: unmasking the 8-trillion-ruble budgetary furnace, the nationwide diesel apocalypse, and the grand illusion of the Kadyrov regime.

  • S2 · E43
    July 8 · 59 min

    2.43 ...but it sometimes rhymes

    Imperial hubris mirrors 1904 as drone strikes dismantle Russia's refineries, forcing a 25k-ton daily fuel deficit, hyper-inflation debt traps, digital rationing, and total elite structural rot.

  • S2 · E42
    July 6 · 47 min

    2.42 The Pantyhose Filter

    The imperial well runs dry. We track the 69-hour fuel queues, Cossack vigilantes hunting Crimeans, military MPs getting fragged, and the terminal August 2026 convergence. The Vranyo is officially broken.

Showing 1–20 of 30 episodes