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Welcome to The Bla Bla Bunker, a podcast featuring interviews with regular people who have extraordinary stories to tell. The host, Almar Hilmarsson, is one of them. In 25 years he’s gone from Icelandic lawyer and airline CEO to tattooed, bearded meat enthusiast with a startup in Central Europe. On the way, he’s made plenty of stops, and cultivated a habit of running into interesting people and asking them interesting questions. Nothing is off limits in the Bla Bla Bunker, and Almar may ask questions that most people wouldn’t dare to ask.
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Thursday Mar 17, 2022
EP59 Uncomfortable History, Geopolitics, Ukraine and Russia - Vojtěch Ripka
Thursday Mar 17, 2022
Thursday Mar 17, 2022
In this episode we discussed how history is being used as an indicator of the now and future and how people sometimes tend to want to edit history when it is uncomfortable and brutal.
We also discussed the geopolitical circumstances surrounding the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the role of the EU and Nato as well as how Putin's Russia works. Are we looking at a shift in power in the world, are democracies deteriorating and where will we go from here?
An application that supports research teaching with historical sources in history. It focuses on the 20th century. It offers teachers and students a safe environment in which they can work creatively and not be afraid of mistakes. As a result, they acquire the skills and principles of historical thinking in a playful way, thus developing their historical literacy.
The communist experience is part of the common European identity, and therefore we have created Socialism Realised – an online learning environment that presents content aimed at a deeper understanding of the lives of the people in these regimes and a comparison of these experiences to the present.
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