Homo Sovieticus and the utter darkness of an existential void
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.6 • 851 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
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 great piece on the Russian soldiers, this time about an amputee rehabilitation center. I found the article to be extremely important and so, here’s a translation of it, with some of my added thoughts and comments. It is literally an inhuman void of complete darkness, and I also got massive PTSD flashbacks and a panic attack while working with this material, so…there’s a lot to think about.
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| 0:47.8 | Greetings, comrades. |
| 0:49.5 | And welcome to the Eastern Border. |
| 0:51.7 | Now, this is my second attempt of recording this episode because, yeah, I was a bit late |
| 0:57.4 | with this as well since, I'll be honest with you. |
| 1:01.0 | This is a very heavy episode, okay? |
| 1:04.0 | There is no depictions of prime violence there, quite a bit bit of swearing and nothing about intimate activities, |
| 1:15.6 | but it's one of those existential void episodes. This is a continuation sort of of that |
| 1:23.1 | terminal stage of Homo-Sovieticus episode. So if you haven't listened to that one, I highly recommend that you go and check it out or that, if you don't remember what was in it, please go check it out as well, because this is basically a very weird part two. |
| 1:42.2 | And I had a couple of problems with this, which I'll, which I want to |
| 1:46.7 | address before I even start anything here. First of all, the subject matter of this episode, |
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