Psychedelic Socialism: LSD in Czechoslovakia
Before we get to psychedelic socialism, some context. The 1960s were a turbulent and exciting time in pop-culture, most notably in the western world. The...
MUSIC ON RIBS: A Brief History of Soviet X-Ray Records
As reported by USA Today, the Recording Industry Association of America has released a report confirming that in the first half of 2020 vinyl records...
How to get out of Europe during COVID
The 2020 COVID pandemic has caused most countries around the world to close off their frontiers to tourists. Typically allowing only residents and freight can...
China has a coronavirus vaccine – and it might actually work
A few weeks ago I was on a call to a Chinese friend who informed me that China had a vaccine that would probably be...
A border dispute in Western Europe?
Apart from a little pushing and shoving between France and Germany, the map of western Europe has looked pretty similar since the days of Napoleon....
Strasserism – the alternate Nazi’s
What is Strasserism? Aside from one of the worst ever ideologies? You’ll see many a right-wing communist hater declare that because the National Socialist Party,...
What Is Nagorno-Karabakh and Why Are They Fighting Over It?
Introduction As an all-out war seemingly looms between Azerbaijan, backed by Turkey and Armenia, backed by Russia over Nagorno-Karabakh, much the world is asking where...
Will there be a full-blown war between Armenia and Azerbaijan?
Whilst things during Soviet Union times were largely a great love fest since the fall of the good old CCCP, relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan...