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S5E3 Chechnya and Chechens fight to be free
A small republic, a country in spirit, lies north of Dagestan and Azerbaijan. It has only about a million and a half people and I am not sure there is consensus about how they want to live, but they…
S5E2 Iran vs Iraq; the war and its legacy.
Following the tumultous revolution and subsequent hostage crisis, Iran's neighbour, Saddam's Iraq thought the timing was opportune to do a land grab.The strategic miscalculation led to one of the…
S5E1 Iran; Oil, Islam & the west
When I was seven years old, one of my friends moved to Tehran with his family. I do not know what his parents did, but I know that they returned in less than a year because of the revolution. I did…
S4E8 Ukraine; & the bear next door.
Here is the continuation of the 2 part series on Ukraine in the last 100+ years; trying to see the overall picture and understand why Ukraine has become such an important headline in the last few…
S4E9 Ukraine; from about 1910 to World War II.
It seems that Ukraine rarely made the news until about 2013-14 when Russia invaded Crimea and somehow the Bidens were involved in a scandal. I knew of it, because my mother's family all trace their…
S4E6 Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge
Its effect was little in the rest of the world. Vietnam was the larger story at the time, and the horror of the Cambodian Killing Fields a sidenote in coverage.
S4E5 Korean War; the war and its legacy
This is part 2 of the two part series on the Korean War. Thanks for listening.
S4E4 The Korean War; the background
If you have listened before, you know how this goes. This episode looks at the history of the Korean peninsula and what happened leading up to the Korean War in 1950.
S4E3 Greek Civil War: 1st conflict of the Cold War
We're following the trajectory of the Cold War; after the end of the very hot World War II, the beginning of the Cold War was playing out in countries and regions around the world, seemingly all at…
S4E2 The Cold War begins
This is episode 2 talking about post-war Europe and the early days of the Cold War in Germany and specifically Berlin.Listen to the first episode for greater context and come back for more!
S4E1 The Cold War; post world war recovery
The Cold War - a long, drawn out conflict between competing ideologies and world views. We start to look at the years immediately following VE -Victory Europe. There are iconic images of sailors…
S3E3 Nazi SS; war to the end
This episode has some disturbing descriptions. I began researching for this podcast about 2 1/2 years ago. I could not have imagined in 2021 that we would have witnessed the recent attack on Israel…
S3E2 The Nazi SS; eugenics
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." If you have not listened to part 1 of this series, I recommend doing that first. The purpose of the series is to understand the police…
S3E1 The Nazi SS; origins
We all know about World War 2, and the Holocaust. We have watched movies and have a picture of what happened. But in this episode, I wanted to explore the evolution of what happened, the logistics of…
S2E4 The Partition of India - Pakistan; The Divide
Here it is! The finale - the culmination of the other three episodes where we have worked toward an understanding of where political forces stood in the mid-20th century. I start this episode after…
S2E3 The British Raj in India
After the Mutiny of 1857 by military personnel in the employ of the East India Company, the British Crown took over rule in India. It would last until Indian independence 90 years later. It was a…
S2E2 *extra* The rise of the East India company and the decline of the Mughal empire.
Episode 1 of the India-Pakistan partition was a quick introduction to centuries of Indian history, but I could not ignore all the details of just the 18th century. There was so much happening!…
S2E1 Partition of India - Pakistan: Part 1; An introduction to the history of India
You have to listen to this! In 1947, Britain effectively abandoned its responsibility to India after a few hundred years of pillaging the wealth from the Asian subcontinent. We'll get to that... But…
S1E7 The Spanish Civil War part II
In Episode 1, I discussed the different players contributing to the rising tensions in the Spanish Republic in the years leading up to 1936. They were the same tensions that were growing across…
S1E6 The Spanish Civil War part I
The civil war that ravaged Spain in the years leading up to World War II has been a footnote to the greater conflicts in Europe in the early 20th century. But it had much greater implications; in…
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