Episode #73- What Can We Believe About Stalin...

The only literary sources we have about the Viking settlements west of Greenland come from the Icelandic Sagas. The only problem is that the Sagas can be totally off-the-wall. Corpses reanimate and speak prophecies, giant-eyed doppelgängers vanish into thin air, and one-legged cr ...  Show more

Between the 9th and 11th centuries Norse explorers undertook a series of remarkable journeys through the North Atlantic. Iceland and Greenland were settled by medieval farmers eager to find new uninhabited lands. But just how far west did these seafarer's manage to travel? The un ...  Show more

Robert is joined by Cody Johnston to discuss the childhood of Stalin.

FOOTNOTES:

How did a young boy from Georgia become a merciless politician who shaped the Soviet Empire in his own brutal image? Historian and bestselling author, Simon Sebag Montifiore, is back on the podcast to talk to Dan about the rise of Joseph Stalin, a man who caused the death and suf ...  Show more

Did you know that the team behind the Hitler story have profiled lots of other dictators from history? Follow ‘Real Dictators’ wherever you get your podcasts. As well as the rest of the Stalin story, you’ll discover over 100 episodes on figures including Chairman Mao, Colonel Gad ...  Show more

Wolf Messing a fait preuve très tôt de dons surprenants, qui l'incitent à se produire dans des spectacles. Repéré par les Soviétiques, il devient le "mage" de Staline au début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

D'étonnantes dispositions

Wolf Messing voit le jou ...