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Living in a former eastern bloc country, this dude is 100% correct.

Unlikely story from unreliable source

the crime is not showing in schools about the acts of terror, about statistics on how many humans suffered and died under the soviet dictatorship; how to ask others to forget about stepan bandera, while not doing the same with other figures in the country; according to internal figures, more than 39 million perished, a lot during the great patriotic war, but not all of them, cannot heal without recognition about all the crimes; and the criminals are removed from the streets, no statues, put them in a museum with photos that make you vomit, for the young to remember about how evil will strike you again, if you do nothing.

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they are just stupid 🤷

Simple: they are what we would call "useless idiots," lol

As a russian guy from that age gap I don't know personally anyome who was prosoviet. It's even a common talking point of pro soviet people who are 40+ that youth is too pro capitalist And I don't believe political polls, because they all have very clear agenda and also often contradict eachother So I don't really know who are those pro sovier 18-24

According to Andre Gide, all we can try is to be loved or hated for the right reasons. And it's a Win, either way, I would add, for all They wish is for everything to be as irrelevant. SO, in the words of the late, great Charlie Sheen, Nina be Bi-Winning all nite long.

Confused youth are idolizing totalitarian regime totally ignoring all negative aspects like tortures and killings by KGB.

Those who went through 90's lost faith in soviet union.

basically unbriddled capitalism sucks.

People tend to beautify a regime that existed before the current one. It's something like a pyschological leverage.

The youth feel positively toward the Soviet Union though do not personally remember it

It is russian propaganda used in the natural rebellion effect teens have which is needed to retract from parents and selfidentify. They just use this rebellion thing.

At the end of the end of history is great line to start with by the way!

Ok then, so what is the cause? You’ve made a statement, which makes since, but you haven’t give a full explanation of why young people in Russia like the Soviet Union.

lol. sure it is not nostalgia when their grandparents were telling them stories of the glories of the old russia.

The book he wrote is good.

52:24 ish ? Suspect that a lot of Ukrainians that aren’t PMC wanted their nation to copy the economic prosperity of Poland irrespective of it being related to neoliberalism and capitalism sadly. Leftist parties have historically failed after the collapse of the USSR… economic prosperity / advancement was only available under neoliberalism… China realised that even seeing the most growth and reduction in poverty after opening up its economy. Alignment with the EU would have also restrained corruption somewhat which is something that a majority of ex Soviet states had trouble dealing with…

48:30 Prior to 2014 the majority of the nation had agreed via election that they wanted Ukraine to move in the direction of what the PMC wanted. The nation supported a politician that would sign a trade agreement with the EU rather than Russia. The majority agreed with someone that was trying to balance between the EU and Russia in 2010 right? (Believe what happened after 2010 was that Putin realised the EU was a tool of the USA due to EU nations helping the them in Libya and with “regime change”. So decided to then back anti EU movements such as the SNP in Scotland and far right eurosceptics and later Brexit. All while his man in Ukraine, Yanukovych could not balance being pro Russian and anti EU after he got elected for saying he was going to join a trade block with the EU and the PMC could definitely not accept this switch).

It is strange how the imagined past of the USSR now is only championed by a corrupt conservative ultra religious openly imperialistic genocidal government that also functions as an oligarchy. Sounds very “progressive/leftist / Marxist”

Majority of nostalgia experienced by the youth of today is arguably“Anemoia”… nostalgia for a time or place the individual has not lived through rather has experienced via stories or media. This has greatly increased with the internet, algorithms and smartphones. (Something the urban youth of Russia has today unlike the older generations) It wasn’t just the Russian youth that became obsessed with soviet past rather the Russian state has became obsessed and reliant on nostalgia to keep itself and its claims of strength going. Russia does not look to the USSR for “progress” nor for its leftism or Marxism, equality, art, just for its military power and resources. the far right have nostalgia for an imagined past that never existed and Tankies have nostalgia for an imagined past the also never existed, it’s not unique.

What? Pretty sure they don't have anything in common with '70s SPD, she was at "Die Linke" ("The Left") before and left because she wants the politics to focus on "the common man" instead of making left identity politics for academics and minorities. But they jumped on the populist bandwagon (less EU, stronger national states, less migration and refugee rights, pro-Putin, no weapons for Ukraine, anti-US/Israel). This is what we call Querfront (cross front) here. They also said they would be open to cooperate with the AFD (the only party who said that so far). There is nothing progressive about this party, it's just a mixture of old anti-imperialist/socialist ideals from the GDR times of cold war and far right claims to get the votes from the growing right wing electorate and the propaganda-brainwashed people in the eastern federal states.

Great interview. Really enjoyed this

I can tell he's not living here anymore. It's true that we usually catch up with what happened in the US before (see all the trends from the anglo-american left like identity politics that don't even work that well in our context) but there are no "woke wars", there are currently many debates about antisemitism/ Israel-Palestine and Germanys position but besides that the populist right is much stronger in every layer of society except universities and leftist/activist groups. "Woke activism" in the middle of society is happening less than 3 years ago, many more young people get drawn to the right as the last elections have shown.

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Mark my words , all of this will lead to breaking apart of Indian states into separate countries thats for sure

Palestinians dont want to be victims they just want their right

Great news, great analysis, thank you for your service

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Is it just me,or is the sound-level on this absurdly low? A shame as it's an interesting discussion.

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I like this guy

If Vangelis was the Enya of space music, Yanni was that "Celtic Woman" girl group

Maybe the Millenial left hate Israel because of Israel's behaviour, and not because of the strange psychological explanation conjured up here?

obviously we shouldn't say that Stalin was good. We obviously know he did bad things and it was too much, but...

Soyjak Stalin is my favorite!

Brilliant and lucid conversation thanks so much

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Its supporting liberation. Anti imperialist. Freedom!

What is Bungacast’s position on the post-911 invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq? In those wars the resistance forces were also Islamists yet the “western left” at the time recognized that the right to resistance and self-determination isn’t limited to groups of people with politics it likes. This seems to have been forgotten. Also worth remembering that the Israel-Palestine conflict did not begin on Oct. 7. Israel’s biggest problem is that it just wants the Palestinians gone. Unlike “classical” conflicts of this sort the defeated Palestinians (post-1967) were not integrated into a wider nation state but were left to fester for decades in a permanent twilight zone. Just like Palestinians have to accept that Israel exists and isn’t going anywhere, so do Israelis have to accept that Palestinians exist and aren’t going anywhere. Yet few of the many podcast episodes I’ve listened to mention what they think happens next or how this conflict can be resolved without anyone getting ethnically cleansed. Everybody and their dog has an opinion on the Gaza war and the campus protests but with no discussion of the conflict’s history, and how it can be resolved, these discussions quickly become banal and amount to little more than commentary on the latest 24hr news cycle.

1:11:16 perfect framing of the the crux of the contradiction in wokeness expressed concretely in politics. If left dems can afford Trump - the "literal fascist" - on behalf of Palestinian solodarity, well we know Trump was never the deviant monster they claimed he was. The "Uncommitted" gambit of throwing the election toward Trump is especially stupid because Trump is likely going to be more anti Palestinian than Biden. Woke is SO weak!

The Palestinians lost their fight for a nation to the Zionist , British. Palestine is a region that contains the nation of Israel.

These protests are different from BLM because even though BLM had a violent aspect to the action of the movement, it didnt imply a politic of resistance in the form of mass violence or terrorism. The pro-palestine movement of this moment is defined by 10/7 yet terrorism is not denounced. This movement essentially denies a freedom of speech within it, barring nuance and criticism of Gaza's political leadership. Based on the refusal to denounce Hamas and reluctance condemn 10/7, its fair to say that pro-palestine is not a peace movement, but a movement in support of violent resistance and implicitly supports mass killing of Israeli citizens. If thats true, its reasonable to believe that the direction of escalation could go toward similar tactics in the US. If it were an independent country we'd call gaza under Hamas religio-fascist or a theocracy or whatever term is used to describe ISIS, the Taliban, or Iran, all of which were historically agents of reaction against secular nationalism or some kind of pseudo socialism. The Left should oppose Hamas because they have repressed and will repress socialists in the future. Hamas invites massive violence upon the proletariat every time they deploy terrorism against their sometimes sponsor, Israel. The current Pro-Palestine movement doesnt really offer the average Gazan citizen any constructive support. The billionaire leaders of Hamas are the most immediate enemy of the palestinian proletariat. Israel is a close second. Its scary how irrational the global left is on this and so many other issues.

I would love to know Lias’s Opinion of Boudrillard “simulation and simulacra”

To Josh Glenn's point - A number of us did grow up with hand-me-down television and film. That wasn't all bad - that included things from the thirties and forties and think it gave my generation a certain openness to things outside of our own experiences in a way I noticed younger generations seem not to be. I recall the 50's nostalgia when I was a little kid in the 70's, and having teachers in the early 80's organize Soc-Hops where we were supposed to dress up like greasers or soc's so they could relive the nostalgia of their youth. Later on by the mid-80's there was a push for us to relive a mythical 60's of tie-die and Classic Rock. Things that were happening at that present time were belittled, dismissed All this had the effect of denying some of us the opportunity to create our own identities. By the 90's there were the rock revivalist bands with music the reached back heavily into the past, and who wanted nothing more than to relive the decadent experiences of bands like the Rolling Stones or Iggy and the Stooges. But none of this is universal, of course.

One of the best interviews I have heard in a very long time.