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S6E109 An Interview with Olia Hercules - A Truly Amazing Woman and Chef!
Olia Hercules - Ukrainian chef, writer and food stylist has been actively working to promote and safeguard Ukrainian cuisine for years. Her cookbooks are amazing and I think should be a stalwart aid…
S6E108 Odesa - Ukraine's Misunderstood Coastal Capital
Did Catherine the Great found Odesa? No, it's been around for centuries and is far more European than it is Russian! So what other myths surround this Black Sea city? Find out more in this latest…
S6E105 Boychukists - the Avant-Garde's of Ukrainian Modernism
What does Lufthansa, Picasso and the Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Building have in common? They all have links to Mykhailo Boychuk - Ukraine's most prominent modernist painter and the founder and leader…
S6E105 Lviv - the Gateway to Ukraine
While officially founded in 1256, Lviv has been around since the 5th century. It's importance to Ukrainian history has been due to its trade route location, it's multi-culturalism and its…
S6E105 The United Nations and Ukraine
Ukraine was a founding member of the United Nations. It really didn't do much when the Soviet Union was around, but since 1991 it has been one of the most respected and active participant in UN…
S6E103 Kharkiv - a Very Cossack City
Kharkiv is Ukraine's second city - second largest, second populous but certainly not the so-called "young city" that Soviet myths like to fantasize. It's old. Older than the 17th century the Russian…
S6E102 Ukraine and the Soviet-Afghan War
The Soviet-Afghan War begin in 1979 and lasted almost ten years. Ukrainians made up of 25% of the Soviet Armed Forces while it fought in Afghanistan. The war brought the Soviet Union to collapse but…
S6E102 The History of Kyiv
When did the capital of Ukraine become established? How many myths are associated with it's founding? Who actually founded it because there seems to be a lot of people who claim that right! Listen to…
S6E101 The First and Last Hetman of Ukraine
Dmytro Vyshnevetsky "Baida" was the first Hetman of Ukraine in the 16th century. Kirillo Razumovsky was the last Hetman of Ukraine in the 18th century. But who were these two very different types of…
S5E100 Etched in Memory - an Interview with Christina Paschyn about the Crimean Tatars
In the 100th episode of Wandering the Edge, Christina Paschyn, director and producer of Etched in Memory discusses the complicated history of the Crimean Tatars within overall Ukrainian history, but…
S5E99 The History of Ukrainian Money!
The modern Ukrainian currency is the hryvnia, but it is older than Russia! What was the hryvnia and how did it come to be Ukraine's currency? Find out in this episode about the various historical…
S5E96 Ukrainian Displaced Person's Camps
There were thousands of Ukrainians who refused to be repatriated back to the Soviet Union after the end of the Second World War in Europe. These Ukrainians were placed in Displaced Persons camps…
S5E97 The Ukrainian Helsinki Group
The Ukrainian Helsinki Group was filled with varied dissident Ukrainians who wanted Ukrainian independence, self determination and the safeguarding of individual human rights. They fought in their…
S5E95 Ukrainian Insurgent Army - Part 2
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army had hundreds of thousands of soldiers and supporters but how did they win their battles and how did they loose? And what role did women play? This episode will talk about…
S5E95 Ukrainian Insurgent Army - Part 1
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army was an underground Ukrainian guerrilla army that was active during the Second World War and fought against both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. But how were they…
S5E93 The Soviet Union's Ukraine Show Trials
Did you know the Soviet Union's first show trial was in Ukraine? It happened in 1930 in Kharkiv against the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine and resulted in the guilty sentence of 45 Ukrainian…
S5E93 Ukraine's Political Assassinations - both By and Against
Ukraine and Ukrainians have used political assassinations to push their agenda into the spotlight or protest grievances against Ukrainians. Ukrainians have also been targeted by some of the Soviet…
S5E92 Russia's Use of Soft Power - an Interview with Dr. Lada L. Roslycky
What is "soft power" and how did/does Russia use it not only in Ukraine but among other so-called "Western" countries? This question along with others is talked about in this interview with Dr. Lada…
S5E91 Mykhailo Hrushevsky - Ukraine's First Historian-President
Why is Mykhailo Hrushevsky so venerated among Ukrainian historians? And why are his histories so important to Ukrainian historiography? And how this seemingly quiet man become the president of…
S5E90 Operation "Vistula" (Akcja „Wisła”) - the 1947 Ukrainian Resettlement
In 1947, the Polish communist state internally displaced the rest of their 150,000 Ukrainian minority. They spattered them among the now empty German territories they gained when Stalin moved…
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