23. Hacked Hipsters, Vienna Cafes and Girkin's Prophecy
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.7 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In this episode: the staggering hypocrisy of project leads who build "digital prisons" for Russians while living comfortably in Vienna, Austria. Also, from behind bars, Girkin warns that the current "Peace Plan" is a suicide trap, while Kalashnikov argues that the "Raw Material Empire" is collapsing and 2026 will look a lot like 1917.
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| 0:12.9 | Greetings, comrades, and welcome, after a short break for my illness, back to the eastern border. |
| 0:19.7 | Today, we are diving deep into the digital belly of the beast. |
| 0:23.4 | We're going to talk about incompetence. |
| 0:25.5 | We're going to talk about malice. |
| 0:27.2 | But mostly, we're going to talk about the absolute mind-bending banality and idiocy of evil. |
| 0:34.0 | You see, for the last two years, the Kremlin has been trying to solve a problem. |
| 0:39.2 | When they announced mobilization in 2022, it was a disaster. It was chaos. |
| 0:44.8 | Paper files lost, dead people getting drafted, people fleeing the country. It was embarrassing. |
| 0:51.7 | So, they decided to build a machine, a digital net to catch 25 million people, |
| 0:58.7 | the Unified Registry of Military Registration, or E-R-V-U. |
| 1:04.2 | But, as it happens in Russia, where there is a secret government project, |
| 1:08.3 | there is also a group of hackers waiting to burn it down. |
| 1:12.0 | And burn it down, they did. So, pour yourself a drink. Preferably something stronger than tea, |
| 1:19.9 | unless you want to end up like the guys were about to meet, and let's go to Kazan. |
| 1:25.7 | So, think about this. |
| 1:33.4 | It's the evening of December the 5th, and we are in a bar in Kazan. |
| 1:38.4 | A group of young IT workers from a company called Mikord are gathered there. |
| 1:42.7 | Now, Mikord, it is not just some random startup. |
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