Today we hear from three former Yugoslavs about their stories of what life was like under Tito. Also, the winner of our Who Should Play Tito in a Hollywood Movie contest is announced! Be sure to support the show at www.patreon.com/deadideaspod to get your portrait drawn!

Music and graphic design by Rachel Westhoff. Maps, pics, and more at www.deadideas.net.

This is our grand finale! Take out your holographic tablets and laser styluses, because we're mashing up the most ancient with the most modern: the Epic of Gilgamesh with the 1995 classic anime Ghost in the Shell! Featuring a haunting soundtrack by Belgian industrial band Militia.

Be sure to support the show at www.patreon.com/deadideaspod to get your portrait drawn! Maps, pics, references, and more at www.deadideas.net. Music and graphic design by Rachel Westhoff. Map by Adam McKithern.

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Was the famous/infamous institution of temple prostitution in ancient Mesopotamia ever really a thing? And if so, what was that like?

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Music and graphic design by Rachel Westhoff. Custom map by Adam McKithern. Maps, pics, references and more at www.deadideas.net.

Today we look at Tito's post-war regime in which the ideas of Titoism take shape, namely workers' self-management and political non-alignment. And we ask: was Tito ultimately a hero or an anti-hero? Be sure to support the show at www.patreon.com/deadideaspod to get your portrait drawn!

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At last, it's the business nuns? (wait... what?!) That's right - there was a class of nun-like religious devotees who apparently wheeled and dealed like they were trying out for The Apprentice! Be sure to support the show at www.patreon.com/deadideaspod to get your portrait drawn!

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This week you get TWO episodes! This is our first-ever crossover episode going on both Dead Ideas *and* Eastern Border. Kristaps and I talk about the split between Tito and Stalin like it's a heavyweight boxing match! Be sure to support both shows at www.patreon.com!

Music and graphic design by Rachel Westhoff. Maps, pics, references and more at www.deadideas.net. Sound Effects Credits: http://soundbible.com/1559-Boxing-Arena-Sound.html

Was Tito more of a James Bond or a James Bond villain? A romanticizable hero, demonizable villain, or both? That's the question for today as we explore the early life of the man who would become the dictator of Yugoslavia, and who would later create the peculiar communist ideology called Titoism.

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This the world's first bow-chicka-wow. Today, we explore the intimate lives of ancient Mesopotamians, in their own words. Warning: we do get a little crazy toward the end. May your sanity survive. Be sure to support the show at www.patreon.com/deadideaspod to get your portrait drawn!

Music and graphic design by Rachel Westhoff. Custom map by Adam McKithern. Maps, pics, references, and more at www.deadideas.net.

Today begins our series on the ideology of the communist dictator of the former Yugoslavia, Tito, and I'm telling it specifically from the perspective of my own family's ethnic background, the Slovenians. I give the history of the formation of the Slovenian identity up till Tito's time, so that we will be ready to see Titoism from the Slovenian perspective next time, when we talk about Tito himself. For a video of the mercury mines at Idrija, Slovenia, go here: http://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/slovenski-magazin/174472394

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