Episode 71 - In Tourist!
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.7 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2017
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Greetings, Comrades!
We bring you the latest episode of October, the one about InTourist, and the very weird experience of being a foreign tourist in the USSR! Hope you’ll love it! Enjoy! And no, I won't be giving lengthy descriptions of the episode, Not today! :D
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| 0:00.0 | Love this podcast? |
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| 0:05.4 | It's up to you how much you give, and there's no regular commitment. |
| 0:09.1 | Just click the link in the show description to support now. |
| 0:15.9 | Picture this. |
| 0:17.6 | Static cars, idling engines, horns now picture you zooming past it all light and breezy |
| 0:30.5 | ah the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic book your train journey via avantiwestcoastcoast.coast.com. |
| 0:40.1 | Avanti West Coast |
| 0:41.5 | Feel good travel. |
| 1:01.3 | Thank you. Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the eastern border. |
| 1:08.3 | And no, sadly, I will not be talking about Stalin again today, but I do have to say that all November, all of it, shall be just fully dedicated to Stalin |
| 1:12.1 | because we have like overdone these special episodes so far, and we really need to get back |
| 1:18.0 | on with the track with a regular series. It's just the idea of tourism being used as a tool |
| 1:25.8 | to kind of influence intelligence and everything in the Soviet Union |
| 1:30.9 | is important here, and we have just recently discovered and read a whole new research paper |
| 1:38.1 | by the KGB Scientific Research Committee articles. |
| 1:45.3 | Essentially, we have a research institute who are just discussing KGB. |
| 1:51.8 | And they have recently released an article called Soviet ideology and propaganda exercised by the LSSR rig |
| 2:00.6 | division of the all Union State Travel |
| 2:03.0 | Agency in Tourists, working with the Latvian exiled tourists. |
| 2:08.2 | From 1957 to 1985, and that's a really interesting thing, because, you know, I'm very sorry, |
| 2:14.8 | okay, the Stalin episode is descriptive and it's done |
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