225: The Intermarium pt. 3 - Olena in the Intermariverse

I liked that during the longer clip you played of olena, it sounds like people are sword fighting in the background

Anon Ibid

Yes, I think you're right!

In a previous ep you mentioned watching a pro-azov nsbm video with heavy rap influence and aesthetics but couldn't recall the name. I wonder if it was 'le dernier Putsch' by well-known french nsbm band Peste Noire, who were based in Kyiv at the time (and maybe still are?), and dedicated that song to Azov. Frontman 'Famine' is close to Alexey from Moloth — who I think appeared in the video — and was involved in setting up the Asgardsrei concert, tied to the Reconquista Club. Semenyaka is a big fan and quotes Famine approvingly in that black metal essay. He's a pretty pretentious guy and very much on the same wave as her ideologically – though hard to guess what she thinks of the rap stuff! I think i remember seeing a post of hers around the time of Maidan talking about how he reflects her ideas about the role of BM in the 'new nationalism' the best of any artist she knows.

Grilled cheese with apple is superior!

Boris and all, trust me, do not knock the apple pie with cheddar cheese until you’ve tried it. It is surprisingly good, and I learned this from the Scottish side of my family here in Canada, believe it or not.

There is actually a (very small now - certainly less than five people, if any are left at all) Swedish-speaking minority in Ukraine. They belong to Swedish-speaking populations who settled the islands and coasts of the Baltic States in the late Middle Ages, and we're settled in Ukraine by Catherine the Great, if I recall. In at least one village, Gammelsvenskby (The Village of the Old Swedes), they constituted enough of a majority to maintain themselves culturally untill the 20th century, and in this village at least a small handful of very elderly women still spoke natively an extremely archaic east-Swedish dialect that diverged from the Swedish spoken in Sweden some 500 years ago in the late 2000s/early 2010s. There's a documentary about them, The Last Swedes in Gammelsvenskby. Maybe that's the people she means.

Cailleach