The Empire Never Ended

TENE tackles the Ustaša movement of wartime Croatia and their bloody wake. Boris begins with the establishment of the so-called Independent State of Croatia (NDH) with German tanks in Zagreb and their poglavnik (fuhrer), Ante Paveli ć chilling out of the country... and it pretty much goes right downhill from there. Much to their surprise, creating extermination camps for children did not endear th...

TEASER Straight from the archives of UDBA, Socialist Yugoslavia's state security agency, this episode follows Lazar Prokic (law student turned Nazi intelligence agent) and Strahinja Janić (all-around psychopath and founder of the Serbian Gestapo). Rey explains how Prokić found himself at the confluence of several fascist intelligence streams, returning to Belgrade first as a Nazi propagandist and...

In TENE's 28th episode, Rey gives a detailed look at the collaborationist regime of Nazi-occupied Serbia (1941-1944). The regime was led by Milan Nedić, a former general and Yugoslav government minister, close to the fascist politics of his relative Dimtrije Ljotić, leader of the Zbor movement. The boys discuss various collaborationist armed forces, such as the Serbian Volunteer Corps (Ljotić's id...

Boris guides TENE through the twists and turns of Montenegrin nationalism and fascist collaboration in the 20th century. He tells how politician and general Krsto Popović turned rebel in support of Montenegrin King Nikola, only to be exiled himself in Italy, forms the inept Lovćen Brigade for the fascists. Boris introduces quisling leader of the occupied Montenegrin state, Sekula Drljević and his...

Returning to Croatia once again, Boris fills in the gaps between the invention of Croatian nationalism and the rise of the bloodthirsty Ustaša. He follows the career of Ante Pavelić from devoted legal counsel to arrested nationalists, through his brief stint as a parliamentarian, to his fateful trip to Italy where he developed the Ustaša's paltry ideology. The crew discusses some of the whackier l...

In TENE's effort to "catch 'em all", Rey introduces saint and stench wizard, Nikolaj Velimirović, one of Serbian Orthodoxy's most important bishops and the gray eminence of Serbian Fascism. Once a government emissary beloved by Serbian liberals, he took a turn towards the fashy in the 1920s, catching the eye of Adolf Hitler, whom Velimirović compares to none other than Saint Sava himself. From thi...

Rey takes the Empire Never Ended down an awkward road called 'Early Serbian and Yugoslav Fascism'. This is a period of street fighting that shaped the pan-slavic fascists known as 'ORJUNA', and of the inter-war antifascist battle of Trbovlje in Slovenia. Follow Dimitrije Ljotić (1891-1945), wannabe führer and Bible nerd, as he annoys the shit out of everyone before getting politically stomped on b...

TENE pod welcomes Kemal back to narrate some truly crazy shit that went down in the port town of Fiume, also known as Rijeka in today's Croatia, a little more than a century ago. Watch the fundaments of fascism flower from the cocaine-addled brain of celebrated war hero, poet, and daredevil, Gabriele D'Annunzio! Marvel at the sense-defying stunts of his nudist right-hand man and pig-thieving air p...

The crew calls up their buddy Kemal Madžerak to help explain the Croatian national project of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He introduces Vuk Karadžić's Croatian counterpart Ljudevit Gaj and their dual attempts to define Serbs and Croats linguistically. Kemal discusses Illiryianism and its evolution into the Croatian national project, as well as the impact of 'Hungarianization' in the empire....

The crew slows down for a 'kaffeeklatsch' to elaborate on some themes in the previous episode. Rey expands on some surprising connections of Karađorđe Petrović and Boris brings us up to date on his American and British royal heirs today.  They discuss the origin of vampires in the 'Western' imagination and the effort to invent new traditions during the Serbian national project. The boys then spend...

Welcome to our second arc of episodes! To inaugurate the 'Balkan' side of our 'Amerikanski-Balkan' podcast, we begin with the development of the 'nation state' in Serbia. From the uprising against a group of out-of-control Janissaries in 1804 lead by Karađorđe Petrović, through the rewriting of medieval history by a rising ruling class, to the regicides of the Black Hand, Rey narrates the story of...

Boris, Fritz, and Rey wrap up their first arc of episodes and say, not a "goodbye", but a "see yinz later" to the Order of Nine Angles. Fritz gives some updates on this arc's siegepilled stars and Atomwaffen's great new way to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. Shit gets unreal as Rey recounts the recent inclusion of The Empire Never Ended into ONA canon as "antifascist bigots" and Boris joins him to poke f...

[UNLOCKED] We're ending our first arc this week and moving on to greener pastures, so we thought we'd catch you up on some old 'premium' gossip. Halfway through this first twisted arc of episodes, the gang takes a breather to reflect on David Myatt and James Mason, the bad dads of today's Nazi internet. Myatt graces the podcast with over an hour of audio of himself lying and equivocating about his...

The TENE boys return to the ludicrous and grotesque spectacle of a human being, Ryan Fleming, notorious National Action nazi pedophile and one-time pretender to the ONA throne with his vampiric (or "whamphyric" if you're a fucking idiot) Drakon Covenant. Rey recalls Ryan's many disgusting crimes and career in National Action (et al.) while Boris reviews his troubles on the Iron March forum. Fritz...

Fritz gives the basics on the Base and their founder, Ron Nazzaro, from Ron's less-than-humble beginnings as a wealthy deep-state contractor to running the most infiltrated neo-Nazi terror organization ever straight into the ground. This is a story of training camps, weapons manufacture, goat sacrifice, and DMT consumption barely held together by a few leaky chat groups which made easy prey for an...

Welcome to Waffen House! The TENE crew is serving up greasy lukewarm helpings of 'waffens' and 'kriegs' to satisfy your appetite for the dangerous and absurd. Sample the uniquely revolting National Action, perhaps a deviled Sonnenkrieg Division, or a steaming Bowlwaffen! For the kids, we have Feuerkrieg Division slathered with gooey O9A. Also, introducing our newest and most ridiculous menu item,...

The boys recount the rise and fall of the notorious Atomwaffen Division. From its inception on the defunct neo-Nazi forum, Iron March, to its inelegant devolution into an internet meme, this awkward lovechild of James Mason and David Myatt takes some time to cover. Responsible for multiple murders and dozens of 'SWAT-ings', linked to numerous neo-nazi would-be terrorists, and creating an entirely...

Fritz summarizes an incredibly dumb book entitled "A Squire's Trial" by Iron March founder, Alexander Slavros. Who knew it was possible to combine Nazis and Pirates into something this lame? Along with their new friend, Farb, the gang discuss Slavros' background, his contribution to the new Nazi normal, and have a laugh at his jerky attempts at prose. Finally, Fritz unveils his own secret project,...

The second and final part of our interview with our comrade from CrimethInc. Rhetoric of civil war on the right and left, the police and the uprising against them, and the spotlight on antifascism are all covered with our comrade's characteristic insightfulness. CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective is a publishing and activist organization based primarily in the US that has been a key figure in the c...

Boris realizes his secret mission to turn The Empire Never Ended into a metal podcast by analyzing the life and music reviews of Al Qaeda's 'senior operative' in America, Adam Gadhan a.k.a. Azzam the American. In this minor detour from this arc's neo-nazi theme, the crew is joined by undersea Professor of Jazz, Salvador Falcon, to judge the metal chops of Al Qaeda's English-language propagandist,...

The Empire Never Ended does a cross-over episode with CrimethInc. in the form of an in-depth interview! Our discussion went down some deep holes and in the end, we decided to chop it up into two episodes. In part one, our CrimethInc.er takes us from anarchist adults through that whole Trump era thing to Charlottesville and the question of firearms in the movement.  CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collectiv...

Halfway through this first twisted arc of episodes, the gang takes a breather to reflect on David Myatt and James Mason, the bad dads of today's Nazi internet. Myatt graces the podcast with over an hour of audio of himself lying and equivocating about his role in the Order of Nine Angles, prompting the guys to draw a comparison to an interview with James Mason recorded some years after. Rey attemp...

The Empire Never Ended podcast reads Siege! You would think, as literally required reading for joining Nazi terror groups like Atomwaffen and the Base, that James Mason's magnum opus would offer something more than "The world is over, be a spree killer", but you would be wrong. That said, Boris and Fritz read this POS so you don't have to, the least you can do is suffer through it with us. Rey rev...

If you made it this far, something might be wrong with you. Fritz and Boris continue their book report on one of the most malodorous pieces of trash ever printed, James Mason's Siege. It's not all serial killers and shit-talking 'the movement' this time, though; turns out Jimbo's got a thing for aliens! So in case you haven't heard enough from the grandfather of the world's most annoying terrorist...

The Empire Never Ended podcast reads Siege! You would think, as literally required reading for joining Nazi terror groups like Atomwaffen and the Base, that James Mason's magnum opus would offer something more than "The world is over, be a spree killer", but you would be wrong. That said, Boris and Fritz read this POS so you don't have to, the least you can do is suffer through it with us. Rey rev...