Podcasts about commissars

https://www.patreon.com/isyanderandkoda You already know how to please the Machine Gods at this point so thank you so much. And make your voices heard for which faction you would like to see next! -Isyander P.s for those of you who want to send stuff our way. Thank you in advance. Po BoxIsyander & Koda Po Box 1196, Tacoma, Wa, 98402, USAAnything below is made for (and by) the omnissiah. You can read it though, just a summary of the banger of a video you're watching.It's all chitin and biomorphs today! Dive into the ultimate Warhammer 40K lore guide on Hive Fleet Leviathan—the largest, deadliest Tyranid swarm ever to darken the galaxy. We track the fleet's rise from Behemoth and Kraken lessons learned, through Kryptman's infamous Galactic Cordon, the planet‑shattering Battle of Tarsis Ultra, and the grinding Octarius War that pitted Orks against 'Nids. Then we jump to the present‑day Fourth Tyrannic War as Nautilon, Promethor, and Grendyllus tear into Segmentum Pacificus, threaten the Sanctus Line, and march toward Terra itself.Along the way you'll meet Norn Emissaries, Neurolictors, Deathleaper, and other brand‑new bio‑horrors, learn how Leviathan perfects every mutation, and see why many fans think this is the Tyranid end‑game. We also preview future topics—Ecclesiarchy, Goge Vandire (pre‑Age of Apostasy), Commissars, the Octarius meat‑grinder—and ask YOU to vote on what drops next.If you love grimdark strategy, tabletop tactics, or just want the full story behind 40K's galaxy‑eating apex predator, hit play, smash like, and join our Patreon Legion for weekly bonus episodes, live hobby streams, polls, and an amazing community. The Hive Mind commands it!———TAGSWarhammer 40K, Tyranids, Hive Fleet Leviathan, Leviathan lore, Tyranid invasion, Fourth Tyrannic War, Octarius War, Kryptman Cordon, Fidus Kryptman, Battle of Tarsis Ultra, Devastation of Baal, Norn Emissary, Neurolictor, Deathleaper, Swarmlord, Hive Mind, Synapse creatures, Shadow in the Warp, Norn Queen, Genestealer cult, Orks vs Tyranids, Segmentum Pacificus, Sanctus Line, Bastior Sub‑Sector, Galaxy‑eating swarm, Bio‑Titans, Parasite of Mortrex, Hive Fleet Behemoth, Hive Fleet Kraken, Hive Fleet Grendyllus, Nautilon tendril, Promethor tendril, Imperial Guard vs Tyranids, Adeptus Custodes, Trajann Valoris, Lord Commander Solar, Space Marine lore, Ultramarines 4th Company, Uriel Ventris, Mortifactors Chapter, Death Korps of Krieg, Ecclesiarchy, Goge Vandire, Imperial Commissars, Leagues of Votann, Grimdark lore, 40K tabletop tactics, Games Workshop, Warhammer lore explained, Warhammer 40000, sci‑fi horror, alien swarm, miniature wargaming, lore deep dive, Hive Fleet tactics, Tyranid bioforms, Warhammer theory————————————Opinions expressed in this video are solely those of Isyander & Koda and in no way reflect the views or opinions of Games Workshop Ltd.Artwork throughout this video is used for educational purposes. if you see your artwork and would like an art credit, message me.Support the show

https://www.patreon.com/isyanderandkoda You already know how to please the Machine Gods at this point so thank you so much. And make your voices heard for which faction you would like to see next! -Isyander Everything below is for the omnissiah. But like, you can read it if you want. Just a synopsis of the video you're watching.In this in-depth video, we explore the harsh and rigorous world of the Schola Progenium, the Imperium's legendary training ground that produces some of the most elite and feared individuals in Warhammer 40k. From Commissars and Tempestus Scions to the Adepta Sororitas and even the shadowy assassins of the Officio Assassinorum, the Schola Progenium is where the orphans of the Imperium's fallen heroes are molded into the next generation of warriors, leaders, and enforcers.Join us as we delve into the brutal reality of life at the Schola Progenium, where young cadets are stripped of their past, forged in iron discipline, and trained to serve the Imperium with unwavering loyalty. We'll take you through the recruitment process, where orphans of Imperial officers are brought into the fold, and follow their journey through grueling training regimes under the watchful eyes of Drill Abbots—veterans turned priests with a mandate to shape these children into the Imperium's finest.You'll get an inside look at the rigorous Trials of Compliance, the make-or-break challenges that determine the cadets' future roles within the Imperium. Will they become the inspiring but feared Commissars, ready to execute their own troops if necessary? Or perhaps they'll join the ranks of the Tempestus Scions, the elite special forces of the Imperial Guard? We'll also explore the paths leading to the Adepta Sororitas, where faith and martial prowess combine, and the terrifying journey of those chosen for the Officio Assassinorum, trained to become the deadliest killers in the galaxy.In this video, we don't just focus on the Schola Progenium itself but also touch on how its graduates shape the wider Imperium. From the bureaucrats of the Administratum who keep the massive war machine running, to the psykers who walk the razor's edge of sanity and chaos, every graduate of the Schola plays a vital role in maintaining the Imperium's fragile existence.Whether you're a long-time Warhammer 40k fan or new to the lore, this video offers a comprehensive look at the Schola Progenium's role in creating the Imperium's most important and dangerous individuals. Witness the blend of religious indoctrination, military discipline, and ruthless efficiency that ensures only the best and most loyal serve the Emperor.———TAGSWarhammer 40k, Schola Progenium, Commissars, Tempestus Scions, Adepta Sororitas, Officio Assassinorum, Imperial Guard, Astra Militarum, Warhammer 40k training, Warhammer 40k lore, Imperial bureaucracy, Psykers, Inquisitors, Warhammer 40k education, Warhammer 40k elite forces, Warhammer 40k indoctrination, Drill Abbots, Trials of Compliance, Imperial orphans, Warhammer 40k universe, Warhammer 40k factions.————————————Opinions expressed in this video are solely those of Isyander & Koda and in no way reflect the views or opinions of Games Workshop Ltd.Artwork throughout this video is used for educational purposes. if you see your artwork and would like an art credit, message me.Support the show

The hallmark of a Communist regime is the presence of political commissars throughout every government agency. Their sole responsibility is to assure the faithful compliance of the bureaucracy to the dictates of the Leader.   Joe Biden recently issued an Executive Order designed to establish what amount to commissars throughout the U.S. government. They will run so-called “Agency Equity Teams” to advance “racial equity and support for underserved communities.” They will also coordinate with the White House Gender Council, and their agencies designated “environmental justice officers” and “diversity officers.”   The top commissar overseeing this transparently political enforcement agenda will be Biden Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice. Her political discipline was evident in the Obama years when she declared five different times on national television the Obama team's false party line about the murderous jihadist attack Benghazi.   If Congress fails to defund this totalitarian apparatus now, we can kiss our accountable, constitutional Republic goodbye.   This is Frank Gaffney.

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This is going to be the big fight. Four bills are in the House, or soon to be introduced. All of them unconstitutional. But really — who's going to stop this? GUEST: Lewis Brackpool

Exploring the Schola Progenium which trains Commissars, Tempestus Scions and many other officials for the Imperium of Mans bureaucracy.    PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL HERE: https://www.youtube.com/c/aborderprince   Thanks! Emperor Protects! #WARHAMMER #40K #COMMISSAR -----------------------Affiliate links-----------------------------

What happens to the top data scientist at Reuters when he crunches the numbers and points out that BLM is built on lies? He gets fed into the machinery of “diversity and inclusion” for some struggle sessions, and is then summarily fired. The Left doesn’t care if something is a fact, all they care about is whether it supports the narrative in a way that enhances their power. Bari Weiss has a great substack on this issue, with a guest writer Zac Kriegman who tells the harrowing tale of the HR department ejecting him because he spoke the truth about BLM.Follow Clay & Buck on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/clayandbuckSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What happens to the top data scientist at Reuters when he crunches the numbers and points out that BLM is built on lies? He gets fed into the machinery of “diversity and inclusion” for some struggle sessions, and is then summarily fired. The Left doesn't care if something is a fact, all they care about is whether it supports the narrative in a way that enhances their power. Bari Weiss has a great substack on this issue, with a guest writer Zac Kriegman who tells the harrowing tale of the HR department ejecting him because he spoke the truth about BLM. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Bolsheviks caught the car. Now they had to figure out what to do with it.

There's been tremendous political wrangling in the US recently about raising the debt ceiling (how much money we allow ourselves to borrow). The U.S. is not the first country in history borrow money and we won't be the last.  In the late imperial period until the early 1920s, Russia needed cash, and they got it from Britain and France. Owing so much money gave Russia a kind of power; if Russia defaulted, it would have been catastrophic for the countries that lent them money. Guest: Duke professor Jennifer Siegel. Her book is For Peace and Money: French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars.

Today in 1918 the Gregorian calendar was introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars making its coverage almost universal.  Today's pod looks at the history of it, why it was needed and how it was rolled out.... Enjoy! 

The Nazis always intended to wage a war of annihilation in the Soviet Union and both soldiers and civilians would die in unprecedented numbers. In the Nazi camps Soviet soldiers were left to starve, but the Soviet political officers, the commissars, were targeted for immediate execution wherever they were discovered. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

From Moscow, the world looks different. It is through understanding how Russia sees the world—and its place in it—that the West can best meet the new Russian challenge to the existing world order. Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West (Chatham House, 2019), by Chatham House Senior Russian expert, Keir Giles provides the sophisticated and curious reader a primer to help explain Putin's Russia. As per Giles, Russia and the West are like neighbors who never seem able to understand each other. A major reason, this book argues, is that Western leaders tend to think that Russia should act as a “rational” Western nation—even though Russian leaders, Tsars, Commissars and Presidents alike for centuries have thought and acted based on their country's much different history and traditions. Russia, through Western eyes, is unpredictable and irrational, when in fact its leaders from the Tsars to Putin almost always act in their own very predictable and rational ways. For Western leaders to try to engage with Russia without attempting to understand how Russians look at the world is a recipe for repeated disappointment and frequent crises. Keir Giles, describes how Russian leaders have used consistent doctrinal and strategic approaches to the rest of the world. These approaches may seem deeply alien in the Western world, but understanding them is essential for successful engagement with contemporary Russia. Giles argues that understanding how Moscow's leaders think and act—not just Vladimir Putin but his predecessors and eventual successors—will help their counterparts in the West develop a less crisis-prone and more productive relationship with Russia. Charles Coutinho has a doctorate in history from New York University. Where he studied with Tony Judt, Stewart Stehlin and McGeorge Bundy. His Ph. D. dissertation was on Anglo-American relations in the run-up to the Suez Crisis of 1956. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. He has written recently for the Journal of Intelligence History and Chatham House's International Affairs. It you have a recent title to suggest for a podcast, please send an e-mail to Charlescoutinho@aol.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From Moscow, the world looks different. It is through understanding how Russia sees the world—and its place in it—that the West can best meet the new Russian challenge to the existing world order. Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West (Chatham House, 2019), by Chatham House Senior Russian expert, Keir Giles provides the sophisticated and curious reader a primer to help explain Putin's Russia. As per Giles, Russia and the West are like neighbors who never seem able to understand each other. A major reason, this book argues, is that Western leaders tend to think that Russia should act as a “rational” Western nation—even though Russian leaders, Tsars, Commissars and Presidents alike for centuries have thought and acted based on their country's much different history and traditions. Russia, through Western eyes, is unpredictable and irrational, when in fact its leaders from the Tsars to Putin almost always act in their own very predictable and rational ways. For Western leaders to try to engage with Russia without attempting to understand how Russians look at the world is a recipe for repeated disappointment and frequent crises. Keir Giles, describes how Russian leaders have used consistent doctrinal and strategic approaches to the rest of the world. These approaches may seem deeply alien in the Western world, but understanding them is essential for successful engagement with contemporary Russia. Giles argues that understanding how Moscow's leaders think and act—not just Vladimir Putin but his predecessors and eventual successors—will help their counterparts in the West develop a less crisis-prone and more productive relationship with Russia. Charles Coutinho has a doctorate in history from New York University. Where he studied with Tony Judt, Stewart Stehlin and McGeorge Bundy. His Ph. D. dissertation was on Anglo-American relations in the run-up to the Suez Crisis of 1956. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. He has written recently for the Journal of Intelligence History and Chatham House's International Affairs. It you have a recent title to suggest for a podcast, please send an e-mail to Charlescoutinho@aol.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From Moscow, the world looks different. It is through understanding how Russia sees the world—and its place in it—that the West can best meet the new Russian challenge to the existing world order. Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West (Chatham House, 2019), by Chatham House Senior Russian expert, Keir Giles provides the sophisticated and curious reader a primer to help explain Putin’s Russia. As per Giles, Russia and the West are like neighbors who never seem able to understand each other. A major reason, this book argues, is that Western leaders tend to think that Russia should act as a “rational” Western nation—even though Russian leaders, Tsars, Commissars and Presidents alike for centuries have thought and acted based on their country’s much different history and traditions. Russia, through Western eyes, is unpredictable and irrational, when in fact its leaders from the Tsars to Putin almost always act in their own very predictable and rational ways. For Western leaders to try to engage with Russia without attempting to understand how Russians look at the world is a recipe for repeated disappointment and frequent crises. Keir Giles, describes how Russian leaders have used consistent doctrinal and strategic approaches to the rest of the world. These approaches may seem deeply alien in the Western world, but understanding them is essential for successful engagement with contemporary Russia. Giles argues that understanding how Moscow’s leaders think and act—not just Vladimir Putin but his predecessors and eventual successors—will help their counterparts in the West develop a less crisis-prone and more productive relationship with Russia. Charles Coutinho has a doctorate in history from New York University. Where he studied with Tony Judt, Stewart Stehlin and McGeorge Bundy. His Ph. D. dissertation was on Anglo-American relations in the run-up to the Suez Crisis of 1956. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. He has written recently for the Journal of Intelligence History and Chatham House’s International Affairs. It you have a recent title to suggest for a podcast, please send an e-mail to Charlescoutinho@aol.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From Moscow, the world looks different. It is through understanding how Russia sees the world—and its place in it—that the West can best meet the new Russian challenge to the existing world order. Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West (Chatham House, 2019), by Chatham House Senior Russian expert, Keir Giles provides the sophisticated and curious reader a primer to help explain Putin’s Russia. As per Giles, Russia and the West are like neighbors who never seem able to understand each other. A major reason, this book argues, is that Western leaders tend to think that Russia should act as a “rational” Western nation—even though Russian leaders, Tsars, Commissars and Presidents alike for centuries have thought and acted based on their country’s much different history and traditions. Russia, through Western eyes, is unpredictable and irrational, when in fact its leaders from the Tsars to Putin almost always act in their own very predictable and rational ways. For Western leaders to try to engage with Russia without attempting to understand how Russians look at the world is a recipe for repeated disappointment and frequent crises. Keir Giles, describes how Russian leaders have used consistent doctrinal and strategic approaches to the rest of the world. These approaches may seem deeply alien in the Western world, but understanding them is essential for successful engagement with contemporary Russia. Giles argues that understanding how Moscow’s leaders think and act—not just Vladimir Putin but his predecessors and eventual successors—will help their counterparts in the West develop a less crisis-prone and more productive relationship with Russia. Charles Coutinho has a doctorate in history from New York University. Where he studied with Tony Judt, Stewart Stehlin and McGeorge Bundy. His Ph. D. dissertation was on Anglo-American relations in the run-up to the Suez Crisis of 1956. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. He has written recently for the Journal of Intelligence History and Chatham House’s International Affairs. It you have a recent title to suggest for a podcast, please send an e-mail to Charlescoutinho@aol.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From Moscow, the world looks different. It is through understanding how Russia sees the world—and its place in it—that the West can best meet the new Russian challenge to the existing world order. Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West (Chatham House, 2019), by Chatham House Senior Russian expert, Keir Giles provides the sophisticated and curious reader a primer to help explain Putin’s Russia. As per Giles, Russia and the West are like neighbors who never seem able to understand each other. A major reason, this book argues, is that Western leaders tend to think that Russia should act as a “rational” Western nation—even though Russian leaders, Tsars, Commissars and Presidents alike for centuries have thought and acted based on their country’s much different history and traditions. Russia, through Western eyes, is unpredictable and irrational, when in fact its leaders from the Tsars to Putin almost always act in their own very predictable and rational ways. For Western leaders to try to engage with Russia without attempting to understand how Russians look at the world is a recipe for repeated disappointment and frequent crises. Keir Giles, describes how Russian leaders have used consistent doctrinal and strategic approaches to the rest of the world. These approaches may seem deeply alien in the Western world, but understanding them is essential for successful engagement with contemporary Russia. Giles argues that understanding how Moscow’s leaders think and act—not just Vladimir Putin but his predecessors and eventual successors—will help their counterparts in the West develop a less crisis-prone and more productive relationship with Russia. Charles Coutinho has a doctorate in history from New York University. Where he studied with Tony Judt, Stewart Stehlin and McGeorge Bundy. His Ph. D. dissertation was on Anglo-American relations in the run-up to the Suez Crisis of 1956. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. He has written recently for the Journal of Intelligence History and Chatham House’s International Affairs. It you have a recent title to suggest for a podcast, please send an e-mail to Charlescoutinho@aol.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From Moscow, the world looks different. It is through understanding how Russia sees the world—and its place in it—that the West can best meet the new Russian challenge to the existing world order. Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West (Chatham House, 2019), by Chatham House Senior Russian expert, Keir Giles provides the sophisticated and curious reader a primer to help explain Putin’s Russia. As per Giles, Russia and the West are like neighbors who never seem able to understand each other. A major reason, this book argues, is that Western leaders tend to think that Russia should act as a “rational” Western nation—even though Russian leaders, Tsars, Commissars and Presidents alike for centuries have thought and acted based on their country’s much different history and traditions. Russia, through Western eyes, is unpredictable and irrational, when in fact its leaders from the Tsars to Putin almost always act in their own very predictable and rational ways. For Western leaders to try to engage with Russia without attempting to understand how Russians look at the world is a recipe for repeated disappointment and frequent crises. Keir Giles, describes how Russian leaders have used consistent doctrinal and strategic approaches to the rest of the world. These approaches may seem deeply alien in the Western world, but understanding them is essential for successful engagement with contemporary Russia. Giles argues that understanding how Moscow’s leaders think and act—not just Vladimir Putin but his predecessors and eventual successors—will help their counterparts in the West develop a less crisis-prone and more productive relationship with Russia. Charles Coutinho has a doctorate in history from New York University. Where he studied with Tony Judt, Stewart Stehlin and McGeorge Bundy. His Ph. D. dissertation was on Anglo-American relations in the run-up to the Suez Crisis of 1956. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. He has written recently for the Journal of Intelligence History and Chatham House’s International Affairs. It you have a recent title to suggest for a podcast, please send an e-mail to Charlescoutinho@aol.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From Moscow, the world looks different. It is through understanding how Russia sees the world—and its place in it—that the West can best meet the new Russian challenge to the existing world order. Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West (Chatham House, 2019), by Chatham House Senior Russian expert, Keir Giles provides the sophisticated and curious reader a primer to help explain Putin’s Russia. As per Giles, Russia and the West are like neighbors who never seem able to understand each other. A major reason, this book argues, is that Western leaders tend to think that Russia should act as a “rational” Western nation—even though Russian leaders, Tsars, Commissars and Presidents alike for centuries have thought and acted based on their country’s much different history and traditions. Russia, through Western eyes, is unpredictable and irrational, when in fact its leaders from the Tsars to Putin almost always act in their own very predictable and rational ways. For Western leaders to try to engage with Russia without attempting to understand how Russians look at the world is a recipe for repeated disappointment and frequent crises. Keir Giles, describes how Russian leaders have used consistent doctrinal and strategic approaches to the rest of the world. These approaches may seem deeply alien in the Western world, but understanding them is essential for successful engagement with contemporary Russia. Giles argues that understanding how Moscow’s leaders think and act—not just Vladimir Putin but his predecessors and eventual successors—will help their counterparts in the West develop a less crisis-prone and more productive relationship with Russia. Charles Coutinho has a doctorate in history from New York University. Where he studied with Tony Judt, Stewart Stehlin and McGeorge Bundy. His Ph. D. dissertation was on Anglo-American relations in the run-up to the Suez Crisis of 1956. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. He has written recently for the Journal of Intelligence History and Chatham House’s International Affairs. It you have a recent title to suggest for a podcast, please send an e-mail to Charlescoutinho@aol.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From Moscow, the world looks different. It is through understanding how Russia sees the world—and its place in it—that the West can best meet the new Russian challenge to the existing world order. Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West (Chatham House, 2019), by Chatham House Senior Russian expert, Keir Giles provides the sophisticated and curious reader a primer to help explain Putin’s Russia. As per Giles, Russia and the West are like neighbors who never seem able to understand each other. A major reason, this book argues, is that Western leaders tend to think that Russia should act as a “rational” Western nation—even though Russian leaders, Tsars, Commissars and Presidents alike for centuries have thought and acted based on their country’s much different history and traditions. Russia, through Western eyes, is unpredictable and irrational, when in fact its leaders from the Tsars to Putin almost always act in their own very predictable and rational ways. For Western leaders to try to engage with Russia without attempting to understand how Russians look at the world is a recipe for repeated disappointment and frequent crises. Keir Giles, describes how Russian leaders have used consistent doctrinal and strategic approaches to the rest of the world. These approaches may seem deeply alien in the Western world, but understanding them is essential for successful engagement with contemporary Russia. Giles argues that understanding how Moscow’s leaders think and act—not just Vladimir Putin but his predecessors and eventual successors—will help their counterparts in the West develop a less crisis-prone and more productive relationship with Russia. Charles Coutinho has a doctorate in history from New York University. Where he studied with Tony Judt, Stewart Stehlin and McGeorge Bundy. His Ph. D. dissertation was on Anglo-American relations in the run-up to the Suez Crisis of 1956. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. He has written recently for the Journal of Intelligence History and Chatham House’s International Affairs. It you have a recent title to suggest for a podcast, please send an e-mail to Charlescoutinho@aol.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Nora Nercessian (Retired, Harvard University), The City of Orphans: Relief Workers, Commissars and the “Builders of the New Armenia” Alexandropol/Leninakan 1919-1931 (Hollis Publishing, 2016)Interviewed by Asya Darbinyan (Ph.D. Student, Clark University)[Released March 7, 2019]

Before the revolution that—very unexpectedly—brought them to power, the Bolsheviks lived nomadic lives. They were always on the run from the authorities. That the authorities were always after them is not really a mystery, for all the Bolsheviks really wanted to do was take their authority away. What they would put in place of that “old” authority, they were not sure. Time would tell. They were, however, sure that they would, once in power, stop running around and settle down. Since Moscow was their new capital, they stayed in Moscow’s hotels for a time while they tried to puzzle out how to build the world’s first communist state. Clearly, however, it wouldn’t due to have the People’s Commissars staying in fancy (if a bit down-at-the-heel) “bourgeois” hotels; it just didn’t feel right. The Soviet elites needed a place of their own. In 1928, they started to build it and a few years later it was done. It came to be known as the “Government House on the Embankment.” As Yuri Slezkine writes in his novelesque history The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Princeton University Press, 2017), their new home was where the Revolutionaries came to live and the Revolution came to die. Slezkine has some very interesting and to some, I’m sure, controversial things to say about the two generations of residents he discusses in the book. One is reminded a bit of Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons,” though in reverse: In the “House,” revolutionaries raised counter-revolutionaries. Listen in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before the revolution that—very unexpectedly—brought them to power, the Bolsheviks lived nomadic lives. They were always on the run from the authorities. That the authorities were always after them is not really a mystery, for all the Bolsheviks really wanted to do was take their authority away. What they would put in place of that “old” authority, they were not sure. Time would tell. They were, however, sure that they would, once in power, stop running around and settle down. Since Moscow was their new capital, they stayed in Moscow’s hotels for a time while they tried to puzzle out how to build the world’s first communist state. Clearly, however, it wouldn’t due to have the People’s Commissars staying in fancy (if a bit down-at-the-heel) “bourgeois” hotels; it just didn’t feel right. The Soviet elites needed a place of their own. In 1928, they started to build it and a few years later it was done. It came to be known as the “Government House on the Embankment.” As Yuri Slezkine writes in his novelesque history The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Princeton University Press, 2017), their new home was where the Revolutionaries came to live and the Revolution came to die. Slezkine has some very interesting and to some, I’m sure, controversial things to say about the two generations of residents he discusses in the book. One is reminded a bit of Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons,” though in reverse: In the “House,” revolutionaries raised counter-revolutionaries. Listen in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you know that Chinese Commissars are notorious pyromaniacs? If you didn't then you obviously have not listened to this episode of The 2 Half Saquads, the only podcast on the net, dedicated nearly 100% to the greatest game in the world, Advanced Squad Leader. Did you know our letters segments provide a place for listeners to make requests of other listeners much like some of the best ASL

Russia was a chaotic hotspot after the Revolution of 1917 and an extraordinary collection of spies, adventurers, and opportunists poured into the roiling Russian political scene. Outsized characters like Sidney “Ace of Spies” Reilly, communist activist John Reed, and author/spy Somerset Maugham all played their parts…under the watchful eye of Feliks Dzerzhinsky, the head of the ruthless Cheka, the first of the Soviet state security organizations. Listen to renown British historian Robert Service discuss his thrilling new book about this turning point of twentieth century history.

--{ Freedom is the Right to Say 2+2=4: "It's Coming Fast, Listen, You Can Tell, The Smothering of the Liberty Bell, Political Correctness, Unelected Panels, Diverting All Life Through Slavery Channels, Commissars of Greening Living Off Gratuity, Appoint Themselves Over 'Your Community', Straight-Faced Priests of the Ecology, Institutionalized by Money, Mass-Psychology, Madness Promoted, Military Precision, We'll All Be Subjected to Green Inquisition, Behind the Mask of All Insanity, Green Heroes Groomed to Hate Humanity, From Those on the Fringe They Select 'To Perfect All That was Left Imperfect' " © Alan Watt }-- Holding onto Your Sanity - Public Adapt to Changes, Debasement and Humiliation - Animal Training - All Forms of Government are Corrupt - Greening, Carbon Footprints and Climate Change Rubbish for Control Over the Population - Nations Put Under by Debt - Bernays' Public Relations Techniques - Cons Depend on Distortion of Perception - Democracy? - Police in Combat Gear - HG Wells, World Brain - Oratory, Memorization of History - Construction of Language, Guidance to a Conclusion - Irish Famine (Food Confiscated by British Troops), Ethnic Cleansing/Genocide - Gaelic - Creation of "Stars" - The Beatles and Theo Adorno - Slave Trade from Africa and White Slaves Brought into America - Slaughter of Peoples Classed as "Inferior" - Demonization of the Elderly in Movies, Promotion of Euthanasia - Recycling Industry (Paid by Tax Money) for Private Profits - Social Engineering through Schooling. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - July 20, 2011 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)