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May 9, Victory Day stream! From the Soviet Victory in WWII and the Immortal Regiment to historical revisionism in the official West, we'll talk about it all (or at least, what we can fit into this stream)!

On this stream, we'll briefly discuss the anatomy of a protest and contrast it with color revolutions. We'll focus on the 2014 Odessa Massacre as well as historical examples, including Russia's 1905 Bloody Sunday, labor strikes in the early 20th-century U.S., and the U.S. antiwar movement during the Vietnam War.

Lately, the mainstream media has been trying to convince us that things are heating up in the Balkans. Again. They claim that Kosovo may turn into "another Ukraine." We'll delve into this question on today's livestream.

The Donbass Republics broke away from Ukraine in April 2014 following the so-called "revolution of dignity" that many believe was not an authentic "revolution" at all. But their fate was different than that of Crimea. We'll discuss the 10-year history of resistance in Donetsk and Lugansk areas.

March 2024 brought a solemn 25th anniversary of NATO's strikes on the former Yugoslavia with a significant civilian death toll and the use of depleted uranium alleged to be linked to cancer. This "intervention" served as a watershed moment in international politics. We discuss the details and aftermath of the 78 days of hell today.

Now that we've had the time to process the joy (horror—for some ) of Putin's reelection in Russia, let's talk about it! Was it real or a sham? What can we expect from Putin's fifth term?

Russia's rapid transition from a state-controlled, command economy within the USSR to neoliberal capitalism of the 1990s with the help of Western advisers was a bona fide nightmare for the general population. At the same time, a small number of oligarchs got rich quickly and often criminally, while Western companies profited. How did it all happen? Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ninabyzantina The article we discussed: "Harvard Boys Do Russia," The Nation, 1998: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/harvard-boys-do-russia/

Was Georgia's "rose revolution" authentic or another case of regime change? What happened in the Russo-Georgian War of 2008? How is the former Georgian leader, Saakashvili's, political trajectory relevant to today's Ukraine? In this installment of the Winter Latina Show, we discuss all things Georgia (in the Caucasus, not the U.S.).

There are parallels between both the historical and post-Soviet development of Belarus and Ukraine, including the presence of extreme ethno-nationalism. Yet Belarus managed to avoid Ukraine's fate. Why?

The 1990s collapse in Russia, the Chechen wars, and the introduction of a foreign-backed Project Navalny in the 2000s in an attempt to create color revolutionary scenarios: we discuss it all!

What was the Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War, and why is it more accurate to call it an invasion? Support my work and access exclusive content here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/NinaByzantina

Why is Ivan the "Terrible" called "Terrible"? What happened to Ivan the "Terrible" and his son Ivan? I address these questions in my investigation of the death of Ivan IV (the Terrible). Was he MURDERED?

SUPPORT: Supporting my work allows me to bring you content on a regular basis: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/NinaByza... LINKS: https://bio.site/ninabyzantina SELECTED SOURCES: TASS, RBTH, Evreiskii Muzei (Еврейский музей) SELECTED IMAGES: Adolf Hitler: Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1990-048-29A / CC-BY-SA 3.0. Operation Barbarossa: Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-209-0090-28 / Zoll / CC-BY-SA 3.0. Defense of Moscow: RIA Novosti archive, image # 887721 / Knorring / CC-BY-SA 3.0. USSR Map: Library of Congress.

SUPPORT Supporting my work allows me to bring you content on a regular basis:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/NinaByzantina SELECTED SOURCES -Hampton Sides, Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission, 2001. -Bill Keith, Days of Anguish, Days of Hope, 1972. -“Interview with Robert Preston Taylor, World War II POW,” Humanities Texas
March 2015 (originally conducted in 1974) https://www.humanitiestexas.org/news/articles/interview-robert-preston-taylor-world-war-ii-pow MAPS -Bataan Death March Map by Le Loi. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bataan_Death_March_route_vector.svg -Manchuria (Manchukuo) by Emo. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:China-Manchukuo-map.svg -Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere by Kendrikdirksen. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greater_Asian_Co-prosperity_sphere.png -Google maps of the Philippines, Taiwan, and Japan. SELECTED PHOTOS -Robert Preston Taylor: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections, NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/img/20049442. -Robert Preston Taylor: https://blogs.baylor.edu/texascollection/2021/04/16/a-call-to-service/ -Robert Preston Taylor: https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Upcoming/Photos/igphoto/2000510444/ -Old Bibibid Prison: Photo by Louis Nevin Hodges Sr.,National WW2 Museum, https://www.ww2online.org/image/aerial-view-old-bilibid-prison -Claire Phillips: Photo courtesy of the Oregon Hist. Soc. Research Lib., 001275 https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/phillips_claire/#.ZD9lZuzML0M -Japanese POW camp (unspecified location) is used for illustrative purposes. -The malnutrition POW photo is from Indonesia (Dutch East Indies). -The WWII execution photo is of Sergeant Siffleet at Aitape, 1943.

Supporting my work allows me to bring you content on a regular basis: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/NinaByzantina Crime and Punishment meets real life: the tragic story of Dostoyevky's sister.

Did Joseph Stalin REALLY speak English? How many languages DID he speak? And why does it matter? Support my work and get membership perks: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/NinaByzantina Sources: 1) David McCullough, Truman, 1992. 2) "Stalin Admitted Knowledge Of English, Roosevelt’s Son Says," AP News (February 1986) https://apnews.com/article/8c6e28a9f752338340b79e00a8903381 accessed 16 January 2023. 3) On Stalin's Interpreter, an article and interview with Vladimir Pavlov's wife, 1999 (in Russian), https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/214282 4) Some image sources: -Some Allied conference images: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R86965 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 and Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R67561 / CC-BY-SA 3.0. -Territories promised to Italy in 1915, map by Jcw12, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Promised_Borders_of_the_Tready_of_London.png, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. -Stalin plaque in Vienna by C.Stadler/Bwag https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wien_-_Stalin-Gedenktafel.JPG Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

Supporting my work allows me to bring you content regularly: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/NinaByzantina SOURCES: -All images and videos of Vladimir Putin are sourced initially from Kremlin.ru and the FSB. -Alexander Rahr, Vladimir Putin: _The "German" in the Kremlin_. -Vladimir Putin et al, _First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President_. -Media and TV: Rossiia 1, RIA, TASS, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Russkii Pioner.

Supporting my work allows me to bring you content regularly: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/NinaByzantina That one time the famous author of Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, met an Orthodox saint and felt a little terrified of a long Russian word… Sources: Carroll, Lewis. The Russian Journal and Other Selections from the Works of Lewis Carroll. John Francis McDermott, ed. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1935. Cohen, Morton N. Lewis Carroll: A Biography. New York: Knopf, 1995. Michael, Richard and Richard Kelly, Lewis Carroll, vol 10, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1990. “Lewis Carroll in Wonderland: the writer's adventures in Russia,” RBTH (27 January 2017); https://www.rbth.com/arts/literature/2017/01/27/lewis-carroll-in-russia_690043 (accessed 29 December 2022). Photos of the Trinity Cathedral and the Moscow Kremlin by A.Savin, WikiCommons.