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The Eastern Border

Mayak - Ligthouse (of Strontium 90) P1

The Eastern Border

Kristaps Andrejsons

Cold War, Politics, Soviet, Society & Culture, History, Ussr, News

4.6851 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Greetings Comrades! Part 1 of our Mayak episode, P2 coming tomorrow. You'll hear everything yourselves, basically. But we had to split this in two, it got too long and too weird. Then again, it's Mayak - the WORST place to work on the planet! Enjoy, this one's weird!

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0:44.5

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0:45.5

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0:49.6

Music Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the eastern border.

1:04.5

Oh boy, this took a while.

1:06.3

See, today we're going to be illuminated by Strontium-19 and other nice little radioactive elements.

1:13.5

I will be talking about one of the more curious production enterprises in all of ex-Soviet Union

1:21.1

and modern-day Russia as well.

1:23.7

And, like I said, this took a while to make, because once you start getting into the insanity, it just keeps on giving.

1:32.7

Out radiation, that is.

1:34.5

This is going to be full with pretty terrible, kind of bad nuclear arsenal jokes.

1:41.3

So what are we talking about?

1:43.0

Well, we're talking about the Mayak Production Association,

1:47.8

or Preaswesely Abidjini Mayak, or just known usually as Combina Mayak. Mayak stands for

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