📚 3 Books mentioned in "Top Historian: How the Ukraine War is Going to End" of The Jordan Harbinger Show
Podcast: The Jordan Harbinger Show
Episode: Top Historian: How the Ukraine War is Going to End
Published on April 19, 2025
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Iron Curtain
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Um you know it was a it was a process that took you know several decades to to achieve. um it was the destruction of all as I said there was no no independent business no independent economy of any kind in addition to that there were no non-state organizations of any kind either so um when and I wrote a book about this so when the Soviet Union for example occupied Eastern Europe when they came into Eastern Germany and they came into Poland and they came into Hungary at the end of the second world war um one of the first things they did was take over like youth groups and clubs, you know, so the chess club or the um you know or the soccer club or the hiking club um those were not allowed to be independent. So anything that we would call you know what we would call an NGO or a charity or a civil society organization all of those things were taken over by the state.
The speaker (Anne Applebaum) mentions writing a book about the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe and the state's takeover of all independent organizations.
Moneyland
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It's hard to understand. Um Oliver Bulock actually who you who you've interviewed has a his book is called Moneyland and it's one of the best and easiest to understand versions that explains it if you if you want to know more about it. Um um but the the problem is not just that that complicated world of finance.
The speaker recommends Oliver Bullough's book Moneyland as a resource for understanding the complex world of offshore finance and anonymous money.
Twilight of Democracy
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It's actually now out of power, but we did have it for several years. Um I saw it happen in Hungary, which is a country that I spent a lot of time in at one point. One of my books is partly about Hungary. I saw a version of it in Russia um 20 years uh earlier as well.
The speaker (Anne Applebaum) mentions that one of her books is partly about Hungary, in the context of discussing the rise of illiberal governments in Poland, Hungary, and Russia.