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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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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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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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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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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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01:29:24

32: O9A in the Montenegrin Church and State - the...

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/06/29

In a very special episode of TENE, the fellas summarize and discuss their recent Medium article exposing Nazi Satanists in the Montenegrin Orthodox Church (MoC), Civil Society, and the Ministry of the Interior. The episode focuses on the Astral Bone Gnawers Lodge and their troublingly successful "insight roles", paying special attention to a particular MoC deacon who moonlights as a prominent representative of the Order of Nine Angles, even editing their disgusting journals. Despite the obvious

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31: Wacky Adventures of Ustašas (teaser)

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/06/25

The TENE guys often talk about nationalist contradictions, and there are historical moments, usually quite obscure(d), in which these contradictions are made very clear and totally bizarre. Today, gather round and hear a tale of three such moments... yes kids, it's the Wacky Adventures of Ustašas! First, in a bid to compete with the far more popular Croatian Peasant Party, the rabidly nationalist Croatian Party of Rights seeks an alliance with the increasingly nationalist People's Radical Party in

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01:10:10

30: Ustašas in Power - The Independent State of...

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/06/22

TENE tackles the Ustaša movement of wartime Croatia and their bloody wake. Boris begins with the establishment of the so-called Independent State of Croatia (NDH) with German tanks in Zagreb and their poglavnik (fuhrer), Ante Pavelić chilling out of the country... and it pretty much goes right downhill from there. Much to their surprise, creating extermination camps for children did not endear the fanatically murderous Ustaša to their countrymen and thus the Partisan movement was fully formed. Boris

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29: A Tale of Two Nazis - Lazar Prokić and Strahinja...

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/06/18

TEASER Straight from the archives of UDBA, Socialist Yugoslavia's state security agency, this episode follows Lazar Prokic (law student turned Nazi intelligence agent) and Strahinja Janić (all-around psychopath and founder of the Serbian Gestapo). Rey explains how Prokić found himself at the confluence of several fascist intelligence streams, returning to Belgrade first as a Nazi propagandist and second with the Ustaša invasion forces, only to end up as a valuable asset for Tito's Yugoslavia

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01:32:04

28: Serbian Collaborationists - From New Serbia to...

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/06/14

In TENE's 28th episode, Rey gives a detailed look at the collaborationist regime of Nazi-occupied Serbia (1941-1944). The regime was led by Milan Nedić, a former general and Yugoslav government minister, close to the fascist politics of his relative Dimtrije Ljotić, leader of the Zbor movement. The boys discuss various collaborationist armed forces, such as the Serbian Volunteer Corps (Ljotić’s ideological army), the Serbian State Guard (formed out of gendarmerie loyal to Nedić), Chetniks of Kosta

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27: Montenegrin Nationalism and Collaboration - From...

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/06/11

Boris guides TENE through the twists and turns of Montenegrin nationalism and fascist collaboration in the 20th century. He tells how politician and general Krsto Popović turned rebel in support of Montenegrin King Nikola, only to be exiled himself in Italy, forms the inept Lovćen Brigade for the fascists. Boris introduces quisling leader of the occupied Montenegrin state, Sekula Drljević and his ideological inspiration, Savić Marković Štedimlija to our collection of fascist weirdos and their

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01:39:24

26: How to Train your Ustaša - Croatian Fascists in...

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/06/07

Returning to Croatia once again, Boris fills in the gaps between the invention of Croatian nationalism and the rise of the bloodthirsty Ustaša. He follows the career of Ante Pavelić from devoted legal counsel to arrested nationalists, through his brief stint as a parliamentarian, to his fateful trip to Italy where he developed the Ustaša's paltry ideology. The crew discusses some of the whackier local socialist politics of the time where nationalism was labeled "Left" and internationalism "Right"

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25: Nikolaj Velimirović, 'svetosavlje' and Fascist...

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/06/04

In TENE's effort to "catch 'em all", Rey introduces saint and stench wizard, Nikolaj Velimirović, one of Serbian Orthodoxy's most important bishops and the gray eminence of Serbian Fascism. Once a government emissary beloved by Serbian liberals, he took a turn towards the fashy in the 1920s, catching the eye of Adolf Hitler, whom Velimirović compares to none other than Saint Sava himself. From this fun idea, Velimirović creates Svetosavlje, or 'Saint-Sava-hood', reimagining Saint Sava as a sort of

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01:40:40

24: Dimitrije Ljotić and the Fascist Apprentice

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/05/31

Rey takes the Empire Never Ended down an awkward road called 'Early Serbian and Yugoslav Fascism'. This is a period of street fighting that shaped the pan-slavic fascists known as 'ORJUNA', and of the inter-war antifascist battle of Trbovlje in Slovenia. Follow Dimitrije Ljotić (1891-1945), wannabe führer and Bible nerd, as he annoys the shit out of everyone before getting politically stomped on by rich rival, Milan Stojadinović (1888-1961) in a pathetic bid to become Hitler's boy in Serbia. Also

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23: Fiume 1919 - "The Gang Invents Fascism" (teaser)

The Empire Never Ended ·

2021/05/28

TENE pod welcomes Kemal back 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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