The Past with Jim: Recent Episodes
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Something is rotten in the oblast of Lviv. Join us as we dig into the roots of Ukrainian fascism on both sides of the pond, and meet its rogues' gallery of villains, genocidaires, and Albertan small business owners.
''What used to be called a Canadian novel was a kind of prairie frontier story, but it was phony. In the plot, people came to the land; the land loved them; they worked and struggled and had lots of children. There was a Frenchman who talked funny and a greenhorn from England who was a fancy pants but when it came to the crunch he was all courage. Those novels would make you retch.'' -Robertson Davies
We return from our poorly-earned hiatus to rejoin our Galician immigrants to put down roots in the less than welcoming soil of their new homes. Turns out putting an ocean between you and everything you've ever known was the easy part.
https://crisisrelief.un.org/t/ukraine
What could drive a man to live in northern Saskatchewan voluntarily? Are the dang SJWs being too mean to Sir John A? How much for the world's biggest sausage? Learn the answers to these and other questions in our long-awaited Immigration Episode.
Where does Nationalism come from? What does it sound like in Ruthenian? What is a Ruthenian? And who is to blame for all this?
Music: Laboratorium Piesni
Buy: https://laboratoriumpiesni.bandcamp.com/track/sztoj-pa-moru
Stream: https://open.spotify.com/album/28rtaj5xHuX8oSNRV4bU2v?si=W8i9PPeDRH6aidQEYnPPbw
Content is content, and I KNOW y'xll ain't busy...
Music: https://folkways.si.edu/ukraine-traditional-music/world/music/album/smithsonian
Bibliography to come lol