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Researcher Nick Graf joins The State Between Us to talk about the strangest May Day celebration the Midwestern United States ever had. In 1950, the American Legion organized a "high-effort LARP", transforming the small town of Mosinee, Wisconsin into the avant-garde of the "United Soviet States of America", complete with borscht, detention camps, and mock executions on "Red Square".
*note: Nick points out that he said the editor's name was "Bill Schweinler" when in fact it was "Francis Schweinler".
*note: Nick points out that he said the editor's name was "Bill Schweinler" when in fact it was "Francis Schweinler".
Stay tuned to Nick's YT page to catch his coming documentary when it drops!
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Reading:
Fried, Richard M. The Russians Are Coming! Pageantry and Patriotism in Cold War America. Oxford, 1998.
Haverty-Stacke, Donna T. America's Forgotten Holiday: May Day and Nationalism 1867-1960. New York, 2009.
Music:
The Kavaliers - Get That Communist Joe (1954)
Lulu Bell & Scotty - I'm No Communist (1952)
Also featuring music from koleso neštastia
The Kavaliers - Get That Communist Joe (1954)
Lulu Bell & Scotty - I'm No Communist (1952)
Also featuring music from koleso neštastia
What is The State Between Us?
My name is Fritz McAlinden and this is The State Between Us, the anti-fascist podcast for dark dives into the ruling class insanity and fashy political cultures as well as our defenses against them through mutual aid and building each other up, sharing knowledge, and connecting the disparate voices in our overlapping struggles. Also TTRPGs, Sci-Fi, and other nerd shit. Let's get weird with it!