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In April, The Camden County College Department of History and political Science Hosted a Community Lecture on the Situation in Ukraine in 2022. We discussed Russian and Soviet History,
We discussed Ukrainian History since 1991, We discussed International Relations and International Institutions, and then I had the last topic "What Might Happen Next."
This vid is that part of the lecture evening (expanded from its 18m original form). Unfortunately, the evening in its entirety was not recorded.
So I made this special video just for you. I hope you like it.

S3:E2 – Baltic Wars: Ukraine 2022 - Where Do We Go From Here (Special Episode)

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Baltic Wars: Scandinavia from 1520 - 1809 (and before and beyond) is a new season of Great Big History Podcast.  In Baltic Wars we are going to talk about the Murders, the Wars, the Heroes, the Villains of North and Eastern Europe.  
In this episode we look at how a revolt in the South Eastern Ukraine sparked a larger war and then a Russian Invasion which set off Western intervention in the Baltic. We Look at the Time of Troubles, Poland-Lithuania's army, a genocide of Jewish settlers which was a precursor to ethnic violence for the next 400 years. We look at battles won and lost and treaties signed but never carried out. And we set up the wars to come in the 1650s and beyond.
you can find my book on Sweden in the 1650s Invasions, Insurgency and Interventions: Sweden's wars in the 1650s at Amazon

S3:E1 – BALTIC WARS! Scandinavia and Baltic 1520-1809

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Discussion of Christianity during the Roman Empire from the pre-Jesus conquest of Palestine by Pompey to the social commentary of Jesus to the radical Romanization of Paul to the Philosophical assimilation of Augustine's "City of God" with Platonic Philosophy. We even invent thought crimes, build a capital and destroy an Empire.

S2:E33 – Roman Christianity (Bonus Episode)

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The Three Stages of Disney Princesses // The Conservative Portrayal of Liberal Femininity // Race and Women and Disney Princesses // The Continual Success of American Women // Fight Club and American Men in Continual "Crisis" //

S2:E32 – Disney Princesses and American Feminism + Fight Club and American Masculinity

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The Suburbs, the Sixties, the Backlash, Religion, Re-Segregation, Economic Inequality, the End of the Welfare State, Racism, Sectionalism, Winning the Cold War, and the America you live in now.

S2:E31 – American Conservatism - From Wilderness to Dominance

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China occupied // Civil War // Mao's Great Leap Forward // Mao's Cultural Revolution // Starvation, Death, and independence from the West // Economic Modernization // The Square Incident // Wealth and political Conservatism

S2:E30 – China After World War II - Disaster, Death, Recovery, Success

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Africa after World War 2 // The Trauma the Europeans leave behind // Apartheid Ends and Nelson Mandela teaches the World to Forgive // Europeans Sing Songs to "Save" Africans

S2:E29 – Africa, Decolonization, Apartheid, Disaster and Recovery

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India gains Independence // Pakistan Gains Independence //  Bangladesh gains Independence from Pakistan // Everyone Fights, Everyone's Traumatized, and then We Add Nukes // Hindu India leaves Islamic Pakistan Behind // There are wars in Afghanistan

S2:E28 – South Asia Partition, War and Recovery

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The Cold War Gets Hot // The West Grows Rich // The European East Falls Behind // Toilet paper explains the end of Soviet Communism // The US and USSR Fight Everywhere while Great Art and Music gets made under the Nuclear Threat // Genesis makes a Video // Peter Gabriel plays Games // RUSH wonders if it was worth it after the Berlin Wall Falls

S2:E27 – Cold War Kids: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

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European Cinema Recovers After WW2 // The French Poverty // The British Bond Imperial Salvation // The Moody Scandinavian Intellectualism // Bollywood shows India can tell their Own Stories // Nollywood proves the world can make their own cinema and watch themselves on screen

S2:E26 – World Cinema After World War II

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Disneyland and Entertaining Middle Class America // EPCOT brings the World to America // Disneyland Tokyo and  the Success of Americanization // Disneyland Hong Kong and Shanghai and the Limits of Westernization

S2:E25 – Disneylands and Entertaining the World's Middle Class

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What Can I say - We Murder 60 Million People this Episode, Industrialize Mass Racial Murder, and Nuke Two Cities // We Bomb Spain and Horrify Hemingway // We Show What Fascism Does to Fascists and the Poor People in the Way of Fascists // we Invent "Anti-Fascists" (like grandpa-pa) // We usher in the Nuclear Age with a Massive Collective World Trauma // China survives but the Chinese citizens are Terrorized // Japanese cities are burned to the ground // Even the Heroes do Terrible Things in this Episode

S2:E24 – World War II and The Death of the European Hegemony

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Fascism tries to Recreate the Traditional World and Bores Everyone (Even Goring) // Stalin Murders the Great Artists but Gets Lots of Graphic Design to Brag About Him // America has a Crisis of Dignity // Gangsters escape the Limits of the World and Fall to Earth // Escapism makes One Forget About Life for a While // Comic Books Save the World

S2:E23 – 1930s: Popular Culture -Superman Where are You Now

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Conservatives flock to Fascism to Save them from Liberal Communism and Burn up the World with Hate // There's only Silly Hitler in this Episode // The Nazis are Hyper-Masculine, Women Hating and Surprisingly, well, Gay. // Scar from the Lion King Appears // Charlie Chaplin Dances with a Globe // Fascism tries to Control the Economy without Owning the Economy like Communists // America Inspires Europe with Eugenics, Segregation, and Conservative Violence

S2:E22 – 1930s: Fascism Hates You

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The Communist Revolution in Russia // The Stalinist Destruction and Mass Murder // The Breaking of Society to Make a New World (and here's the thing - it works - it terribly, horribly, works) // The USSR Creates a Powerful State During the Great Depression

S2:E21 – 1930s:Communism and the Stalinist Destruction

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The Great Depression Responses, Part 1: Killing Capitalism to Save it.

S2:E20 – 1930s Liberalism: Capitalism is Dead, Long Live "Capitalism"

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How the Great Depression Happened // How Traditional Capitalism Died // And how it Traumatized the Anglo-American-European World and gave Birth to The Modern World

S2:E19 – The Great Depression and the Crisis of the Modern World

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The Conservative World tries to stop all the changes of the 1910s and 1920s - they win the Courts and pass some laws and loose the culture

S2:E18 – 1920s: The Conservative Backlash

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Women and the Right to Vote // African Americans invent the jazz age // Writers Write // The World is Terrible but its Also Awesome //

S2:E17 – 1920's: Liberalism on the Move

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Europeans murdered each other in staggering numbers and then there was a Plague

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