Great Stories/Perspectives
In this podcast Kristaps gives you something that's hard to find - Soviet history with some humor. Great combination of stories, anecdotes, old jokes, different persectives, etc. Interesting stories about day-to-day life in the USSR and how the public viewed the system they lived under. It personalizes the Soviet people, particularly people of the Baltic States, in a way that never comes through in a textbook about the Cold War. I've "borrowed" some of these stories to use in my class, thanks Kristaps!Read full review »
Swedgin555 via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 03/16/16
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The soviet border as seen from a native of Latvia. I love hearing another perspective
iemilyxo via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 03/01/16
Really like this podcast, I love hearing all about the Soviet world and culture and comparing it to my own. The host does a good job of presenting both the facts and personal anecdotes with a sprinkle of humor in there. Good Stuff!
No Swayzee No Wayzee via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 03/13/16
Wonderfully quirky tragi-comic story of life in the USSR in a well thought historical structure with a strong Latvian perspective. Many of the events are sad and depressing and yet telling is full of anecdote, persoanl stories and jokes of the time that takes the listener behind the polemics into...Read full review »
Peter in Cambridge via Apple Podcasts · Great Britain · 05/04/16
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