How Prof. Lipsits tried to save the Soviet economy in just two days
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.7 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Today I'm back with an oldschool style episode, because I really needed a break from the news - so I give You the story of professor Igor Lipsits - if you remember, he was a guest on the show and talked about the Russian economy not so long ago - about how back in 1989, the Politburo tasked him with trying to save the financial health of the USSR.
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| 0:12.9 | Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the Eastern Border. Now, I was supposed to do a news episode today, but, oh boy, I woke up with a horrible case of total lack of energy and |
| 0:25.3 | what I call brain death where I couldn't think at all. And yeah, maybe not sleeping and doing a lot |
| 0:34.2 | of work with hardcore, hardcore whitening bullshit is not an idea, not a very good idea at least. |
| 0:40.9 | Just in case you didn't know, yeah, please check out the Eastern Border on YouTube. |
| 0:45.7 | And also, well, over there, we had a four-hour stream with Rob, my friend, about the whole history of the homo-Sovieticus mentality. |
| 0:56.0 | It was long and, oh boy, quite difficult. |
| 1:01.1 | And straight after that, straight after that, like, I finished, that one was supposed to go to sleep. |
| 1:06.3 | And after that, yeah, Maxim Gulasnikov posted on his channel the most insane thing I have ever |
| 1:12.9 | covered and seen in my life. He invited a philosopher, which I have to put in heavy airquos |
| 1:19.0 | over there, who spoke for one and a half hours about what the national idea of Russia is, |
| 1:24.9 | and that was a complete, an utter mess, utter mess because you know I've been talking a lot |
| 1:29.3 | about how Russia is a religious experience and and wow I had never heard that whole stuff put |
| 1:35.1 | together because because you know it would look silly if it did and it did and it's insane |
| 1:41.3 | and yeah that last episode was a final thing. |
| 1:47.3 | Final thing that made me finally, you know, finalized my PhD application, which I also did. |
| 1:52.0 | So, yeah, it was a very brutal couple of days. |
| 1:55.8 | And please do check out the stuff on YouTube. |
| 1:58.2 | One, I was away in Riga, so I couldn't really record properly |
| 2:02.6 | to be able to put it also in audio form. |
| 2:05.9 | And secondly, |
| 2:07.0 | that Vatnik stuff, |
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