The Ukraine War’s Real Backstory: 1945 to 2025 in One Conversation | Prof. Roger Markwick

Episode 40 of the Bogan Intelligentsia Podcast – Prof. Roger Markwick (Honorary Professor of Modern European History, University of Newcastle) breaks thirty years of Australian academic silence on the real origins of the Russia–Ukraine war. This is the forbidden lecture they won’t let you hear on any Australian campus: the actual post-WW2 contest for Europe, the deep historical roots of modern Ukraine, Eurasianism and the real (limited) role of Alexander Dugin, the suppressed timeline of the 2014 Maidan coup, the Odessa Trade Union House massacre that was memory-holed in the West, the eight-year Donbass war that began in 2014, the sabotaged Minsk agreements, and how an oligarch-funded TV comedian with zero political experience was transformed into the West’s Churchillian saint. Layer by layer, Markwick dismantles the “unprovoked aggression” fairy tale that every legacy outlet still parrots in 2025.

If you’ve ever wondered why dissenting academics on this topic can be counted on one hand, this is the episode that explains it.

Episode Details: Duration ~80 minutes | Release Date: Wednesday, 3 December 2025 | Guest: Prof. Roger Markwick – author, Soviet and post-Soviet dissidence specialist, lecturer on the long history of Israel–Palestine

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Keywords: Roger Markwick, Russia Ukraine war origins, NATO expansion lies, Maidan 2014, Odessa massacre, Donbass war 2014-2022, Alexander Dugin, Eurasianism, Zelensky oligarchs, Minsk betrayal, Australian academic censorship, Western propaganda collapse