Insightful, harrowing, and sometimes funny.
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“I discovered this around September when Mr Andrejsons was a guest on another great podcast Explaining Ukraine. Since then I’ve been hooked.
Although he’s not a native English speaker, he’s fluent enough. Comparing his early efforts with the more recent ones, I’d say drop him in the US for a few months. He’ll turn native soon enough. Anyway this should be easy to listen.
Being a journalist, he does his homework. When he doesn’t know, he’ll say so, but also ask around, dive into written materials and translate that into English for us. A minor problem I see is that he tries too hard to pack in as much information as possible into most of his podcasts that they’re actually pretty heavy in substance. There’re more than a few that I’ve been listening over and over to really hammer it in.
I went to college in the 80’s, and had a Russian history class then where the professor explained how things could be ‘turning out’ over there on the other side of the curtain. Little did he, nor any of us students, know what would transpire only a few years later.
Before getting hooked on this, I knew things had been real bad in the Soviet Union. But I’ve learned with this that what I thought I knew was but a tiny fraction of the grave injustices, and terrible experiences that the people on the other side of the curtain had to endure all those years.
Anyway, this material which Mr and Mrs Andrejson present here is stuff I wish I’d learned way back then. In that sense, I think this is excellent material for college classes.
Yes, he does swear on occasion, but he does so at the right time where most of us would also. So may I suggest not to take that ‘Parental Advisory’ icon too seriously. Alice and Kris are very respectful of whoever’s mentioned. So unless you’re still attending Sunday School, or haven’t started junior high, why not give these folks a try.
I wish I’d found this podcast years ago.”
bw097 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/30/22
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“Kristaps has such a connection with the topics of his shows and his way of speaking is so concise and flowing that it is easy to fall into listening to the shows. The ads DO NOT bother me whatsoever. I find lots of new podcasts from other podcasters recommending them. I actually found The Eastern...”Read full review »
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“I needed something other than rolling sports radio to listen at work. Found this podcast. Kristaps work in telling the story of the USSR of someone who actually lives in the region is amazing, interesting, sometimes fun, sometimes sad but always informative. Highly recommended”
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11/30/16
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“Excellent Podcast!”
NJoChe via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
06/16/16
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