Episode 9 – Gorby P1
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.7 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2016
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Greetings, Comrades! Sorry for the delay, we had some issues on this end…but we’ve now delivered, and that’s what matters, right? In this episode – Gorbachev’s Perestroika and Glasnost. And why the first privately owned businesses in the USSR were completely insane. Here’s the two pictures, related to this show:
Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. (GERARD FOUET/AFP/Getty Images)And, the awesome and (in)famous State Mark of Quality:
As always, enjoy the show – and don’t forget to give a listen to Inward Empire, and check our Dark Myths collective! Next episode in mid February!
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| 0:46.3 | Hello there, all you fans of the Eastern Border podcast. |
| 0:50.3 | If you've been enjoying this show, chances are you're the kind of history buff who's |
| 0:55.1 | interested in not just what's happened in the past, but also why. The role of ideas and beliefs |
| 1:01.1 | in history is huge, isn't it? You can't tell the story of the Soviet Union without it. In fact, |
| 1:06.8 | one of the many things that makes the Cold War so fascinating is that both sides had a whole |
| 1:11.5 | body of ideas influencing what their people and their governments did, how they saw the world |
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| 1:27.4 | I haven't touched the Cold War yet, but rest assured I'll get there one of these days. |
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