The Last Soviet (Samizdat and Kaleidoscope) | samizdataudio.com
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Early in the first episode of excellent new podcast The Last Soviet, our hero, cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, is alone on Mir, the space station, orbiting the globe. It’s 1991, and back down on Earth his country, the Soviet Union, has collapsed in disarray. Now there is no money to send out another cosmonaut to take over Sergei’s position. Luckily, he’s not completely stranded: he can return home in the re-entry capsule, but that would leave the space station empty, circling Earth without a crew. Sergei is married, with a one-year-old daughter. He has a choice: he can come home to his family or stay on the space station for who knows how long. What will he do?
