Dissident Mama, episode 72 – Dr. Marcus Papadopoulos

Dr. Marcus Papadopoulos is a British historian, analyst, and author specializing in Russia and the former Soviet Union. He is also an expert on the former Yugoslavia and international relations, having exclusively interviewed the former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic. Dr. Papadopoulos is a prominent television personality, providing insight into his fields of expertise. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Law and Modern History at London Guildhall University; received a Masters degree in Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London; and also at Royal Holloway was awarded a Ph.D. in Russian history. Dr. Papadopoulos’ first book “Arise, Rossiya: The Return of Russia to World Politics” was met with acclaim, as did both his 2016 speech at the House of Lords on the origins of the current tension between America and Russia and his scholarly article for the journal of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, “One Eye on Hitler, the Other Eye on Stalin: How Britain Explored a British-Soviet Alliance from January to June of 1941.”

The unReconstructed and unrelenting Dr. Papadopoulos and I talk about the death of the West, the South as the first victim of the US federal government’s tyranny, the breakup of America and how it could “pressurize” decentralization in the rest of the Anglo-Saxon world, the differences between Confederate secession and both Yugoslavia’s and the USSR’s breakup, Russian history in regards to Euro-England hegemony, the Wolfowitz Doctrine, color revolutions, Russia as a defender of religion, Russophobia as racism, and much more.

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A few of Dr. Papadopoulos’ gems are this 2016 BBC interview wherein he discusses Aleppo, Syria and its relationship to Russia, and how British Russophobia has roots in the Crimean War; a 2018 interview with Sky News in which he calls out an uppity mainstream journalist (is there any other kind?) for relying on the propaganda tools of Western-backed terrorists; his 2020 talk with Turkish news about the Hagia Sophia being converted into a mosque; and a brutally honest conversation from a few weeks ago about Bakhmut and how it has been a “strategic disaster for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.”

Be sure to check out more of Dr. Papadopoulos’ prolific work, including all recent interviews and his deep-dive archives at his YouTube and Odysee channels, his many appearances on RT, his cultural critiques on Twitter and Facebook, and some of his writings at the Centre for Research on Globalization.

And if you’d like to read more about the South’s parallels with Russia, check out this DM content:
• “Russian lessons for Dixie”
• “Russia-Ukraine: Through a Dixian lens, part 1”
• “Russia-Ukraine: Through a Dixian lens, part 2”
• “Homegrown faith & ‘Holy Russia’”
• “Southern myths & legends”

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