To wrap up their second arc of episodes, the TENE Crüe analyzes an extremely interesting Bulgarian documentary / travelogue from 2003 called Whose is this Song? (Chia e tazi pesen? / Чия е тази песен?) which follows the director, Adela Peeva, as she follows the multiple claims on and origin stories for a single song from her childhood. Beginning in Turkey, Peeva travels to Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Serbia, and Bulgaria; at each stop locals claim this song as their own, often denying that other nations are even capable of its composition. Rey, Boris, and Fritz show how this journey sums up Arc 2 in many ways. Boris also brings in a couple more songs that took on various and contradictory political meanings depending on their singer. Finally, the fellas give a brief update on the Astral Bone Gnawers' Lodge in the Montenegrian Orthodox Church and tease the coming arc of episodes on Fascist America.

This is The Empire Never Ended, the Antifascist Amerikanski-Balkan podcast about (neo) fascist terror, the (deep) state and the alienation, nihilism and desperation produced by the capitalist system. And how to get rid of all that. Something like that...

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