In the late 1930s, the Soviet Union took in about nearly 3,000 child refugees of the Spanish Civil War. These kids, aged roughly from 5 to 12 years old, were placed in boarding schools in Leningrad, Moscow and elsewhere in the USSR. Their stay in this strange new land was supposed to be temporary. But fascist victory in the Spanish Civil War and the outbreak of WWII made them exiles for the foreseeable future. Now responsible to their rearing and education, Soviet officials and their Spanish minders transformed these children into hybrid Hispano-Soviets. They were steeped in patriotism for their two homelands and taught to emulate Spanish and Soviet heroes, scientists, soldiers, and artists. How did these Spanish children fare in the Soviet Union and live through the multiple traumas of their childhood? What did it mean to Hispano-Soviet? What was their fate and memory of growing up as a refugee? Here’s Karl Qualls with this little known story.

Guest:

Karl Qualls is the John B. Parsons Chair in Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of History at Dickinson College. He’s the author of From Ruins to Reconstruction: Urban Identity in Soviet Sevastopol after World War II. His new book is Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-51 published by the University of Toronto Press.


Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the USSR

Live from São Paulo, journalist Brian Mier reports on Lula da Silva's legal victory, pandemic politics and antidemocracy in Brazil.

1308: Lula, lawfare and antidemocracy in Brazil / Brian Mier

Writer Rich Woodall on the financialization of music catalogues and the future of the music economy - for listeners and artists and profiteers, and his new article Mass Hipgnosis for The Baffler.

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IP Tunes: On the financialization of the music economy.

Robbie Martin interviews journalist Yasha Levine about his new book Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet.

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Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet with Yasha Levine

Robbie and Abby Martin bring on Whitney Webb from Mint Press News to discuss her 4-part bombshell investigative series about Epstein's powerful network that has its tentacles into almost every form of Deep State shenanigans imaginable. Whitney goes over the first iterations of sexual blackmail operations by the mafia in the 1920s and then later by figures like Roy Cohn, eventually the larger bipartisan network surrounding Epstein, the Clintons, the Trumps and the Maxwells, as well as their connections to intelligence and the Deep State.

Whitney Webb's Epstein series: https://www.mintpressnews.com/category/epstein-investigation/

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Epstein's Mysterious Network & Sexual Blackmail as Intelligence Gathering w/ Whitney Webb

Nate Silver tell us Joe Biden’s inconsistent political beliefs are, in fact, a benefit. They’re “his calling card” and evidence he “reads the room pretty well”. Venality, we are told, is “a normal and often successful [mode] for a politician.” Insurgent progressive groups like Justice Democrats shouldn’t call Biden out of touch with the base because, Silver tell us, “only 26 of the 79 candidates it endorsed last year won their primaries, and only 7 of those went on to win the general election.”

On Twitter and his in columns, high-status pundit Nate Silver, has made a career reporting on the polls and insisting he’s just a dispassionate, non-ideological conduit of Cold Hard Facts, just channeling the holy word of data. Empirical journalism, he calls it. But this schtick, however, is very ideological - a reactionary worldview that prioritizes describing the world, rather than changing it. For Silver - and data-fetishists like him - politics is a sport to be gamed, rather than a mechanism for improving people’s lives.  

We are joined by Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson.

Episode 87: Nate Silver and the Crisis of Pundit Brain

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Abby Martin covers the whole truth about the Afghanistan War, from the CIA construct of the 80's through today's senseless stalemate. Two decades, three administrations, tens of thousands of lives; it's time to #EndTheForeverWar. 

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Less than a year after Trump's inauguration, Steven Spielberg rushed out an urgent message: "Journalism will save us!" We finally get around to watching THE POST (2017), discussing the limits of Spielberg's particular worldview. PLUS: movies and video games under COVID, and memories of the video games based on movies we played in our youth.

Michael and Us

#160 - All the President's Posts

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Nina †urner, Marianne WIlliamson & Tim Black on 2020, Aaron Mate on Syria

Giorgos Kallis and Susan Paulson on their book "The Case for Degrowth," co-written with Giacomo D'Alisa and Federico Demaria for Polity.

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1258: Toward degrowth / Giorgos Kallis + Susan Paulson

Anthropologist Anna L. Tsing on "Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene" a digital project from Stanford University Press.

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1259: Mapping the Anthropocene / Anna L. Tsing

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