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The Empire Never Ended

The Empire Never Ended

The Empire Never Ended is a weekly podcast about fascist freaks and Balkan (anti)nationalist history. We mostly cover horrible things. All in great detail. Something like that... Hosted by Boris Mamlëz and Rey Katula. Subscribe to our Patreon for weekly premium episodes! And check out our social media for updates and whatnot on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

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50: British Israelism - a strange way to say...

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/09/10

Despite what its name might suggest, Rey introduces the British Israelite movement to TENE's arc on Americanist fascism and adds a whole new roster of fashy freaks to their collection. 'British Israelism' is the claim that the British - and eventually Europeans and 'Whites' - are the truest and noblest tribe of Israel. And where does that leave the Jews? Well, that depends on who you ask, but it ain't great. Meet Richard Brothers, a founding ideologue of the movement whose teachings on the lost

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01:50:12

49: The Silver Shirts - When 4D Jesus Told Bill to Nazi

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/09/06

This is a story about interwar America and a mass Nazi movement called the Silver Shirts centered around a man who claimed to speak to long-dead celebrities, including the surprisingly anti-Semitic ghosts of Ben Franklin and Jesus Christ. Follow William Dudley Pelley, toilet paper heir, Hollywood screenwriter, award-winning author, dedicated hustler, and American Nazi militia leader as "mentors" from the 4th dimension guide him and his thousands of followers into a genocidal political platform and a

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01:48

48: Wet Hot German-American Summer - Fritz Kuhn and...

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/09/03

Boris introduces The Empire Never Ended to a very special Bavarian boy named Fritz Kuhn who, through summer camps, mass rallies, and marching (so much marching) throughout the '30s, tried to reconcile racial Americanism and German Nazism through his German-American Bund. Though his career was brief, Kuhn amassed tens of thousands of followers and inspired much of the symbolism and look of future groups. He also embodied the very model of the US Nazi huckster as he embezzled funds to supply his vast

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01:31:44

47: Father Coughlin and the Hour of Power

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/08/30

Remember that time when a third of the U.S. listened to the weekly podcasts of a fascist radio priest? No? Well, neither did Fritz, who guides Boris and Rey through the tangled tale of Father Charles Coughlin, the confusingly named 'National Union for Social Justice', and his would-be terrorist militia, the Christian Front. Despite leading one of the largest American fascist movements in America, being the only Catholic priest to run for president, and becoming the first right-wing mass-media

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02:00

46: Il Ducebags - Interbellum Italian-American...

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/08/27

Trailer for their second episode of Arc 3, where Boris takes TENE on a tour of an underappreciated part of American history - the Italian-American Fascists of the interwar period. They look at the largely forgotten story of Mussolini's supporters in the US as well as the brutal uphill struggle against them. Boris describes spectacular street battles and assassinations that seem more cinematic than real as Rey and Fritz get to know their fascinating participants. Meet early fascist Joseph Di

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01:40:45

45: Henry Ford, the Original American Fascist

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/08/23

In their first episode of this third arc, Fritz introduces daddy of America and total Nazi prick, Henry Ford, to TENE's rogues' gallery. They take a look at Fordism as basically Taylorism on amphetamines plus with a private army of spies and thugs to keep labor in line. Fritz describes Henry Ford's bizarre schemes to Americanize his immigrant labor force as well as a little colony in Brazil called Fordlandia. But that's not all! The crew then looks at Ford's rabid anti-Semitism and adoration - even

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01:39:47

[UNLOCKED] 34: Millions of Dead Nazis - Yugoslav...

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/08/16

Jumping forward a bit in time to the post-war Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), Boris takes The Empire Never Ended on a quick tour of Partisan Cinema and its historical context. Boris, Fritz, and Rey discuss some of the genre's most iconic films: Slavica (1947), Kozara (1962), Battle of Neretva (1969), Battle of Sutjeska (1973), and the epic Nazi-slaughter romp, Walter Defends Sarajevo (1972). Boris and Rey discuss Tito's cinephelia and his uncommon celebrity, while Fritz describes

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01:51

44: Marko and What's-her-name - Partisans and...

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/08/13

Movie night at the TENE compound! In this spiritual sequel to their episode on Yugoslav partisan films, the Empire Never Ended visits Hollywood depictions of Yugoslavia in World War II. The crew watches wartime propaganda flick Chetniks! The Fighting Guerillas (1943), genre-setting Corman B-film The Secret Invasion (1963), boomer dad favorite Force 10 from Navarone (1978), and made for TV movie Dirty Dozen: Fatal Mission (1988). They discuss the extreme swings in Hollywood's attitude toward Chetniks

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01:17:57

43: Interview with Mark Bray

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/08/09

TENE interviews the 'Antifa Guy' himself, Mark Bray, to ruminate on the phenomenon of anti-fascism in America and Europe since the timely publication of his book Antifa: and Anti Fascist Handbook following Charlottesville in 2017. He elaborates on the history and limitations of the term 'antifa' itself and comments on ludicrous attempts to connect it to everything from the Capitol Riots to California forest fires. Mark examines the transition from the so-called 'Alt-Right' to Qanon and more

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03:02

42: Whose is this Nationalism? - Arc 2 Wrap-up (teaser)

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/08/07

To wrap up their second arc of episodes, the TENE Crüe analyzes an extremely interesting Bulgarian documentary / travelogue from 2003 called Whose is this Song? (Chia e tazi pesen? / Чия е тази песен?) which follows the director, Adela Peeva, as she follows the multiple claims on and origin stories for a single song from her childhood. Beginning in Turkey, Peeva travels to Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Serbia, and Bulgaria; at each stop locals claim this song as their own, often denying that other

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01:23:41

41: VMRO – What did the Turks ever do for us?

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/08/03

In many ways, VMRO (Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization) is a quintessential Balkan nationalist group. It not only encompassed a great variety of ideological forms of nationalism, from liberalism, through socialism (including even anarchism) to Stalinism and fascism, they were also the original Chetniks, as well as the group that trained Ustashas to become efficient terrorists. VMRO preferred all forms of struggle that included guns, from guerrilla fighting to terrorism, with an emphasis

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03:06

40: Bogomils and Goths - Bosniak Nationalism and WW2...

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/07/30

Boris leads TENE through the rise of the Bosniak national idea in the 19th and early 20th centuries to Muslim collaboration in the Second World War. Despite a multiplicity of identities and politics among Musilms in Bosnia, shifting imperial borders and modernizing land reforms spur a nationalist turn among Bosnian Muslim landowners. Enter Mehmed Spaho who attempts to create a single national identity through his Muslim Yugoslav Organization, leaving the project to Džafer-beg Kulenović after his

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01:16:13

39: Yugo War Music - Probably worse than you think

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/07/27

In this hybrid between the first and second arc, TENE crew ventures into to the world Yugoslav war music of the 1990s so loved by the edgy memelords of the more smooth-brained corners of the internet. DJ Boris gets on the 1s and 2s and subjects Rey and Fritz to some of the “hits” of the genre while trying to figure out what is so appealing about Ustaša cock rock and genocidal carnival music. This is The Empire Never Ended, the Antifascist Amerikanski-Balkan podcast about (neo) fascist terror, the

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38: From False Messiahs to (Proto/Anti)Zionism - a...

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/07/23

TENE welcomes friend of the show, Pinto, to take them on a detour from their usual theme of fascists and Nazis and explore a fascinating period in the history of Jews in the Balkans. Hear about Sabbatai Zvi, the false prophet who bucked Kosher law, advocated polygamy, and changed Jewish history. Learn the Serbian connection to proto-Zionism with Rabbi Alkalai who called for 19th century Jews to return to Israel to await the return of the messiah in 1840 and who, despite messing up the date and

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01:51:32

37: Chetniks Redux - Interview with Stevan Bozanich

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/07/20

For those of you who haven't had enough of the Chetniks, the Dude abides! TENE welcomes historian Stevan Bozanich to dig even deeper into the 'movement' which, despite remaining at the forefront of ideological struggles in the Balkans today nonetheless remains riddled with questions. Boris, Fritz, and Rey ask Stevan about the early Chetniks and their relationship to the Black Hand and the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO/VMRO) and how a group infamous for regicide produced the

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36: Failnazis - Serbian Stay-Behinds in Yugoslavia...

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/07/16

Rey returns to the UDBA archives to unearth some more tales of dumb Nazi shit from wartime Yugoslavia: the misadventures of Serbian Nazi 'Stay-Behind' units! Meet Branko Gašparević, a singing school teacher for refugee children and inept saboteur for the Nazis who can't seem to pull off a successful mission to save his life (literally). Rey tells the story of Gašparević's trajectory from an ideologue of the quisling Zbor organization of Dimitrije Ljotić, through his time as a deputy commander of the

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01:17:51

35: Chetniks in WW2 - Scum, yes. Rebels? Not so much.

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/07/13

Rey begrudgingly guides TENE through wartime-Yugoslavia's own Jerky Boys, the infamous Chetniks! Renowned in Serbia and beyond as a 'monarchist anti-fascist resistance group', Rey ruins Chetniks for everyone by revealing them to be murderous collaborators on the one hand, and ridiculous clowns on the other. The boys elaborate on figures like Draža Mihailović, the Chetnik high commander with little authority and shrinking legitimacy, and Momčilo Đujić, Orthodox priest and Ustaša snitch still somehow

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03:21

34: Millions of Dead Nazis - Yugoslav Partisan Films...

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/07/09

Jumping forward a bit in time to the post-war Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), Boris takes The Empire Never Ended on a quick tour of Partisan Cinema and its historical context. Boris, Fritz, and Rey discuss some of the genre's most iconic films: Slavica (1947), Kozara (1962), Battle of Neretva (1969), Battle of Sutjeska (1973), and the epic Nazi-slaughter romp, Walter Defends Sarajevo (1972). Boris and Rey discuss Tito's cinephelia and his uncommon celebrity, while Fritz describes

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01:29:44

[UNLOCKED] 23: Fiume 1919 - "The Gang Invents Fascism"

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/07/05

TENE pod welcomes back Kemal to narrate some truly crazy shit that went down in the port town of Fiume, also known as Rijeka in today's Croatia, a little more than a century ago. Watch the fundaments of fascism flower from the cocaine-addled brain of celebrated war hero, poet, and daredevil, Gabriele D'Annunzio! Marvel at the sense-defying stunts of his nudist right-hand man and pig-thieving air pirate, Guido Keller! Weep at the tragic tale of shotgun-riding futurist donkey, Camellino! Somewhere

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02:07

33: Minutes from a Gathering of the CBC Lodge (teaser)

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/07/02

Boris, Fritz, and Rey get loose to talk about their recent collision with the Astral Bone Gnawer's Lodge and TENE's bizarre but expected premier in Balkan tabloids. In order to avoid wrongly appearing like they're taking sides in an ecumenical battle by exposing the O9A's infiltration in the Montenegrin Orthodox Church, the fellas excoriate the rest of the major nationalist projects and their religious avatars in the region for good measure. Other topics: Varg Vikernes, martyrs against traffic

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