Jim, Please upgrade your audio! The interviews are great but please improve your audio quality. Shuffling papers, coughing, breathing and a bad phase shifting audio on your mic. The 'content' deserves better.
Well I live in Russia in Western Siberia and I must say that I don't have any complex of inferiority toward Europeans. At the same time I don't hate Europeans
Good content, but please, please, fix your audio. Something happened starting with the previous episode to where you now sound like you’re talking from inside a big sewer pipe.
I am reading the book “Giuseppe”. It is basically my father’s story! I keep looking at the map and realizing his father and my father were just a few miles from eachother in Italy, Greece, then in the hard labor camps in Germany, and also in their drama of getting back home again. They may have been on the same transport train.
Beside the writing in the book I am penciling in what my father told me and will then give this book to my two adult sons to read. My father also wrote a diary about these days (in Italian, of course) and Mr San Giorgio has inspired me to translate it and maybe even write a book!
It is interesting that both of our father’s spoke of the ounces of bread they received, the calories burned and the imbalance causing severe weight loss and often death. So many of the details they spoke of are the same although much of the cruelty of the guards was left out by my father in fear of reprisal. I tried to have him add these details but he would not because his niece married a German man and he worried it would cause problems.
I have read so many WWII books but have never encountered a story similar to my father’s. Each life was affected so differently during the war. My father and I were very close so this has been a very personal
Read for me. He was a bit younger (born in 1921) ended up marrying in Italy, and moving to the US living a long life to 97.
He was a very kind, patient and religious man and different in temperament from his younger siblings who were fortunate to escape being soldiers mostly due to their young age. I believe the war caused him to value every day of his life even though he did have some PTSD which lasted many years.
He did get to a point in his 90s where he could not watch much tv or news. I believe some of the changes going on in culture and in politics reminded him of what he escaped and he started having nightmares. I was fortunate that his mind was very clear till the end and I was able to hear his stories at a time when I was older and appreciated them.
Thank you Mr San Giorgio for the gift of your book. I can see why you are so proud of it.
This guest seems to conflate the Kremlin with ordinary Russia. The Kremlin cares WAY more about the opinion of the West, (including Israel) than it does about the opinion, health or well-being of its own people. Prigozhin exposed this years ago. Putin could have won the war in weeks but he chose to have Russia bleed out which it has been doing for years now. The casualty figures your guest cited could be woefully underestimating the actual casualty count. He seems to side with the “Z” (“pro-Russia”) Western operators (Ritter et.al.) who never cease to parrot the Kremlin line on the war. Even if what they say is true, 150,000 is three times as many as died in Vietnam and yet Putin has managed to stifle popular dissent by threatening to send those inclined to the front. Just have Rurik Skywalker of The Slavland Chronicles on to discuss this.
Well, Rusophobia is a sickness, some of us have been able to get cured while others prefer to stay in their comfort zone, hating is so easy for low IQ individuals. You´re a prime exemple of that...
How is anything above Russophobic? Speaking of low IQ, you seem to exhibit symptoms of stupidity if you mistake the Kremlin for Russia. You don’t have to like what Slavland publishes to appreciate that Putin has failed to prosecute the war in Ukraine. Since the beginning he has not treated the conflict as an actual, existential threat to the county. He long pretended that his country is not at war (“SMO”) and has not devoted the resources necessary to defeating the enemy and fully liberating the Eastern provinces that are now officially part of the Russian Federation. He backed out of victory when caving to Johnson in 2022. He talks a good game, huffing and puffing at the west. He could take out the Ukrainian leadership in Kiev with one of his “fancy Oreshniks” on moments notice but he does nothing. He hardly seems to do anything. By many accounts ordinary Russian men are rounded up and sent to a Ukrainian front which is a meat grinder. Prigozhin was the first to really make light of this. How is this not a disaster for Russia?
I can understand how the guest must be careful not to directly criticize the central government as he has business and personal ties to the country. But the Russian contacts I have want absolutely nothing to do with the war in the Ukraine because they want to live!
Russian should be a strong, sovereign, independent country, especially in opposition to the US which has forced it into war in the Ukraine. It makes you wonder if the Russia run by the Kremlin actually has any sovereignty at all, or whether all their bluster is simply a facade, part of game of war profiteering.
I guess if you're going to interview someone and put them on a podcast about Russia, it might as well be one of Switzerland's best selling authors. I'd prefer Dmitry Orlov, however.
Thanks so much, Jim, for an insightful current look at Russia and an overview of their history. Unchecked references to the American Empire and the expansion of the pre-Soviet Russian Empire were surprising but welcome. However the current war in Ukraine plays out Russia will remain our Arctic neighbor as the ever-warming global climate drives people to higher latitudes.
This was interesting as hell. Listened all the way thru. Thanks gents.
Jim, Please upgrade your audio! The interviews are great but please improve your audio quality. Shuffling papers, coughing, breathing and a bad phase shifting audio on your mic. The 'content' deserves better.
Well I live in Russia in Western Siberia and I must say that I don't have any complex of inferiority toward Europeans. At the same time I don't hate Europeans
great first hand observations rather than propaganda from Western powers "news".
I really enjoyed this interview. Thank you.
Good content, but please, please, fix your audio. Something happened starting with the previous episode to where you now sound like you’re talking from inside a big sewer pipe.
I am reading the book “Giuseppe”. It is basically my father’s story! I keep looking at the map and realizing his father and my father were just a few miles from eachother in Italy, Greece, then in the hard labor camps in Germany, and also in their drama of getting back home again. They may have been on the same transport train.
Beside the writing in the book I am penciling in what my father told me and will then give this book to my two adult sons to read. My father also wrote a diary about these days (in Italian, of course) and Mr San Giorgio has inspired me to translate it and maybe even write a book!
It is interesting that both of our father’s spoke of the ounces of bread they received, the calories burned and the imbalance causing severe weight loss and often death. So many of the details they spoke of are the same although much of the cruelty of the guards was left out by my father in fear of reprisal. I tried to have him add these details but he would not because his niece married a German man and he worried it would cause problems.
I have read so many WWII books but have never encountered a story similar to my father’s. Each life was affected so differently during the war. My father and I were very close so this has been a very personal
Read for me. He was a bit younger (born in 1921) ended up marrying in Italy, and moving to the US living a long life to 97.
He was a very kind, patient and religious man and different in temperament from his younger siblings who were fortunate to escape being soldiers mostly due to their young age. I believe the war caused him to value every day of his life even though he did have some PTSD which lasted many years.
He did get to a point in his 90s where he could not watch much tv or news. I believe some of the changes going on in culture and in politics reminded him of what he escaped and he started having nightmares. I was fortunate that his mind was very clear till the end and I was able to hear his stories at a time when I was older and appreciated them.
Thank you Mr San Giorgio for the gift of your book. I can see why you are so proud of it.
This guest seems to conflate the Kremlin with ordinary Russia. The Kremlin cares WAY more about the opinion of the West, (including Israel) than it does about the opinion, health or well-being of its own people. Prigozhin exposed this years ago. Putin could have won the war in weeks but he chose to have Russia bleed out which it has been doing for years now. The casualty figures your guest cited could be woefully underestimating the actual casualty count. He seems to side with the “Z” (“pro-Russia”) Western operators (Ritter et.al.) who never cease to parrot the Kremlin line on the war. Even if what they say is true, 150,000 is three times as many as died in Vietnam and yet Putin has managed to stifle popular dissent by threatening to send those inclined to the front. Just have Rurik Skywalker of The Slavland Chronicles on to discuss this.
Well, Rusophobia is a sickness, some of us have been able to get cured while others prefer to stay in their comfort zone, hating is so easy for low IQ individuals. You´re a prime exemple of that...
How is anything above Russophobic? Speaking of low IQ, you seem to exhibit symptoms of stupidity if you mistake the Kremlin for Russia. You don’t have to like what Slavland publishes to appreciate that Putin has failed to prosecute the war in Ukraine. Since the beginning he has not treated the conflict as an actual, existential threat to the county. He long pretended that his country is not at war (“SMO”) and has not devoted the resources necessary to defeating the enemy and fully liberating the Eastern provinces that are now officially part of the Russian Federation. He backed out of victory when caving to Johnson in 2022. He talks a good game, huffing and puffing at the west. He could take out the Ukrainian leadership in Kiev with one of his “fancy Oreshniks” on moments notice but he does nothing. He hardly seems to do anything. By many accounts ordinary Russian men are rounded up and sent to a Ukrainian front which is a meat grinder. Prigozhin was the first to really make light of this. How is this not a disaster for Russia?
I can understand how the guest must be careful not to directly criticize the central government as he has business and personal ties to the country. But the Russian contacts I have want absolutely nothing to do with the war in the Ukraine because they want to live!
Russian should be a strong, sovereign, independent country, especially in opposition to the US which has forced it into war in the Ukraine. It makes you wonder if the Russia run by the Kremlin actually has any sovereignty at all, or whether all their bluster is simply a facade, part of game of war profiteering.
I guess if you're going to interview someone and put them on a podcast about Russia, it might as well be one of Switzerland's best selling authors. I'd prefer Dmitry Orlov, however.
Great talk.
Thanks so much, Jim, for an insightful current look at Russia and an overview of their history. Unchecked references to the American Empire and the expansion of the pre-Soviet Russian Empire were surprising but welcome. However the current war in Ukraine plays out Russia will remain our Arctic neighbor as the ever-warming global climate drives people to higher latitudes.