The Empire Never Ended

The Empire Never Ended
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Nov 16, 2022 • 1h 22min

156: SOPO pt. 4 - Kavaja: Escape from New Yugoslavia

TENE begins their account of the CIA's favorite Serbian terrorist, Nikola Kavaja, as he receives his formative beatings in his brutal attempts to flee Yugoslavia as a young man. Music by Gioele Fazzeri, Daddy's Music, mmtube84 from pixabay.com and Dark Fog by David Feslyian at fesliyanstudios.com. SFX from freesound.org. Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Nov 13, 2022 • 2min

155: The Real World - Serbian Terrorists in '90s Film (teaser)

In an unnecessarily deep dive, TENE pod film club meets once again to examine three US films from the late '90s that depict Serbian terrorists in possession of various weapons of mass destruction: The Peacemaker (1997), Diplomatic Siege (1999), and Termination Man (1997). Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Nov 9, 2022 • 1h 17min

154: "Dear James," - National Socialist Order's Satanic Panic

TENE gets into the nitty gritty of the recent fallout between the dorks at American Futurist and the remedial students of David Myatt at the newly formed National Socialist Order of Nine Angles, with old James Mason smack dab in the middle of it all. Also, did you know that Tom Metzger was a Dreccian Werewolf? Background music by FesliyanStudios.com Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Nov 4, 2022 • 2min

153: Satanic Front and the SOPO-Manson Connection - A Morlachian Orthodox Halloween Special (teaser)

TENE celebrates Morački Orthodox Halloween with a review of recent developments in the inheritors of the Tempel ov Blood, the Satanic Front and their lightsaber-wielding Dark Lords, while Rey adds a curious footnote to the story of SOPO's Father Kajević with an unexpected connection to the Manson family. Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Nov 2, 2022 • 1h 26min

152: SOPO pt. 3 - Father Kajević, Woke Chetnik?

Rey concludes TENE's study of Father Kajević, the terrorist priest of Serbian Homeland Liberation Movement (SOPO), with a look at his revelations during his stay at Leavenworth prison in Indiana following his comrades hijacking of a passenger plane in 1979. Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Oct 30, 2022 • 2min

151: Yugo War Music - Ukraine Edition (teaser)

Boris discovers a strange corner of the war in Ukraine - ultranationalist Yugoslav war music rewritten for both Ukrainian and Russian forces and supporters. TENE looks at some terrible songs familiar to them from way back in Episode 39, and reviews these new dreadful takes on already awful songs. Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.  
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Oct 26, 2022 • 1h 29min

150: SOPO pt. 2 - Aggressive Little Priestlet

In part two of TENE's look at the nationalist Serbian Homeland Liberation Movement (SOPO), Rey examines Father Kajević's own semi-fictional account of his escapades in Ronald Reagan's conservative movement, his time in prison, and a comical hostage negotiation against one of his own inebriated comrades. Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Oct 25, 2022 • 2min

149: Slobodan Drašković - Bircherism with Serbian Characteristics (teaser)

Boris follows the life and writings of Slobodan Drašković, the emigree son of assassinated interbellum Yugoslav government minister, Milorad Draskovic, as he peddles his paranoid fantasies to gullible American anti-communists Bircher-types during the 'Cold War'. Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Oct 19, 2022 • 1h 45min

148: SOPO pt. 1 - Serbian National Lampoon's Terrorist Priest

Introducing Father Stojiljko Kajević, the stranger-than-fiction anti-communist terrorist priest and Serbian Homeland Liberation Movement (SOPO) conspirator. From his home in the United States and under constant FBI surveillance, Kajević drunkenly stumbles between bombings of Yugoslav diplomatic targets in North America and botched assassination attempts of Tito. Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.
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Oct 15, 2022 • 2min

147: The Romantic and Inspirational Lives of King Leka I and Ahmet Zherka (teaser)

Boris falls down the strange rabbit hole of Albanian anti-communist exiles, from the almost unbelievable life of globe-trotting warlord King Leka I to the South Bronx's most famous "defender of the national flag". Subscribe to  patreon.org/tenepod and twitter.com/tenepod.

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