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The Eastern Border

The Purple Mummy (Anatoly Dneprov, 1965)

The Eastern Border

Kristaps Andrejsons

Ukraine, Politics, War, Cold War, History, Ussr, Russia, Documentary, News, Soviet, Society & Culture, Gonzo

4.7877 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

And as promised, I bring you some very Soviet Sci-Fi! More to come, especially if you’ll join our patreon. Enjoy!

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0:42.9

Oh yes.

0:48.5

Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the eastern border.

0:51.8

Now, I promised you something special last time and, well,

0:55.8

haven't really finished up on my boat project and on my new book that I acquired just yesterday.

1:05.0

The boat project is coming as the first episode on April, because I promised you that a long time ago and I want to do that finally.

1:13.3

But I also have a book by Alexander Buskov, which is called Ruskoi America or Russian America.

1:21.3

And that's about the glory days of the awesome Russian colony of Alaska basically how Russian government

1:30.8

operated that place and what went down there so that's incoming too but first I'm

1:35.5

gonna finish the boat at any rate on that this sadly has also acquired a bit

1:42.2

of a case of a coronavirus because she lives in

1:44.6

Strasbourg and well stops going down there as well so I wanted to finally

1:51.5

give you something nice and cute and I've finished the translation work

1:55.3

myself and I had read you some studies before and I had told you that the science fiction genre was the official genre of the Soviet Union.

2:07.6

So I bring you a Soviet sci-fi story from 1965, which is one of the examples of how the Soviets wrote the science fiction

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