Zaharchenko and Prisons
The Eastern Border
Kristaps Andrejsons
4.6 • 879 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Greetings, Comrades!
Due to the death of our favourite separatist, Alexander Zaharchenko in an explosion, I just had to make an episode about it. And then it quite smoothly turned into a gruesome explanation of the “Ponatiya” – the unwritten prison laws, and their harsh inner caste system and things you should and shouldn’t do if you get sentenced in Russia, Belarus or other places in the post-Soviet sphere. But yeah – warning, it does get VERY unsettling.
Enjoy. I…hope?
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| 0:56.7 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by, on track to your destination. |
| 1:01.9 | Not a care in the world as you simply lean back. |
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| 1:34.1 | Avanti West Coast feel good travel Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the eastern border. |
| 1:39.8 | I understood that I haven't told you about a very interesting aspect of whole Soviet culture, |
| 1:46.3 | because if you remember in the Gulag series, I ended up stating that all the USSR was a kind of a huge prison, |
| 1:53.0 | which was kind of this prison culture going throughout the whole union and just, you know, |
| 1:56.3 | creeping its way into the everyday language and what does that mean? |
| 1:59.2 | And it all just got messed up. |
| 2:03.8 | So, we'll be talking about all of that here and some more. |
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