My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

The first blood is spilled. We look at the right-wing of Soviet Society which triggered the putsch. And the rebellious elements that also existed. Jeans, rock and roll, religion, revisionism and weakness.Music by Lee Rosevere and Theme Song by Chris NovembrinoWe are part of Airwave Media Network - check out Ben Franklin's World, Tea Time History, Redacted History, the History of China, The Explorers Podcast, The Age of Napoleon www.airwavemedia.comWant to Advertise on My History Can Beat Up Your Politics? sales@advertisecast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As barricades are built and citizens turn to a protective barrier, the Soviet culture they come from might be the very thing that keeps them going.Music by Lee Rosevere and Theme by Chris NovembrinoWe are part of Airwave Media NetworkTo hear the next two episodes right now - sign up for our PatreonSponsor: Wondery's American ScandalBe Sure to Check Out Their Season on the Oklahoma City Bombing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two institutions, the press and the military, may well determine the fate of the USSR on the night of August 19th, 1991. The Emergency Committee decides, it's time to explain themselves on TV. A reporter makes a fateful decision. So does another. A motley crowd is fashioned into an instant militia.Music by Lee Rosevere (Music for Podcasts) and Theme Song by Chris NovembrinoWe are part of Airwave Media Network - check out Ben Franklin's World, Tea Time History, Redacted History, the History of China, The Explorers Podcast, The Age of Napoleon www.airwavemedia.comWant to Advertise on My History Can Beat Up Your Politics? sales@advertisecast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yeltzin has stood on a tank, but few have seen it. Crowds shift from the traditional protest places to a new one. They bring heavy metal. What on Zemlya is happening?It all starts in a steam bath. Sort of.In order to understand the events of August 19th, 1991, it's necessary to look back. Particularly at 1989, when the most orderly country on earth became the most unpredictable.Music by Lee Rosevere and Theme Song by Chris NovembrinoWe are part of Airwave Media Network - check out Ben Franklin's World, Tea Time History, Redacted History, the History of China, The Explorers Podcast, The Age of Napoleon www.airwavemedia.comWant to Advertise on My History Can Beat Up Your Politics? sales@advertisecast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Soviet citizens wake up to tanks outside their windows in 1991. Media is censored. The President is detained. Another president escapes, maybe just escapes... A third President is powerless. Is this the end of everything?Music by Lee Rosevere and Theme Song by Chris NovembrinoWe are part of Airwave Media Network - check out Ben Franklin's World, Tea Time History, Redacted History, the History of China, The Explorers Podcast, The Age of Napoleon www.airwavemedia.comWant to Advertise on My History Can Beat Up Your Politics? sales@advertisecast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Democratic Party had a problem in the nineteen teens and twenties. What to do with a candidate that could stir up crowds but not enough electoral votes? Though pleased to nominate him in 1896 and introduce a new kind of politics to their party, some Democrats grew tired of William Jennings Bryan especially in his later years as his fundamentalism turned to alcohol, evolution and an arguable Southern favoritism.  Also a brief look at his daughter, Ruth Bryan Owen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 72nd Congress of 1931 was, as elected, a very narrow Republican House 218 R - 217 D. Close, but for President Hoover, good enough. That is until, 14 Congressmen-elect died. Not all at once - that would be weird - over 13 months, for all kinds of reasons but heart attacks and pneumonias leading the list. When special elections were held, it went 218 D and 216 R. 1 Farm Laborer supported the Democrats so 219-216.We talk about this curious case. We also talk about the 14 Congressmen-elect who had some interesting biographies. And we talk Herbert Hoover and the spin he (tried to) put on The Great Depression.We are part of Airwave Media Podcast Network. www.airwavemedia.comAdvertise? sales@advertisecast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One three-second period changed the life of an East German soldier. Stories of freedom and oppression feature heavily on this hodge-podcast episode, the Berlin Wall, the Uruguay dictatorship of the 70's and 80's, a bit about Grover Cleveland and a bit about Charles III. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the world attention focuses on a soccer game, behind the surface is a disturbingly hidden suppression of a previously strong democracy.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The average difference between the two major parties in the House of Representatives at any time in American history is sixty. That being said, there are a few times where one, two or nine seats separated the two major parties in Congress. Sometimes it was Democrats and Republicans. Sometimes it was Whigs and Democrats. You want to be speaker, you scramble. You make a deal with a Socialist, or a Know-Nothing. You find a guy who nobody hates and make him Speaker, hoping that person will listen to. Or you hold out for as long as you can ballot after ballot until people get tired. The record is the 65th Congress in 1917, where one seat separated the two. With a close house arriving in 2023, We look at American history for these times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices