Yugoslav Interlude 4: What Rough Beast Slouches Toward the Ballot Box to be Elected?

Yugoslav Interlude 4: What Rough Beast Slouches Toward the Ballot Box to be Elected?

From Mobile Suit Breakdown: the Gundam Podcast by Nina & Thom

May 23, 2026 · 37 min · Season 11

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The episode discusses the Communist Party of Yugoslavia's electoral achievements and the political landscape during King Peter's reign.

Show Notes This week on MSB: monarchs hate him! This former locksmith has ten weird tricks to win a crushing landslide election. Number five will amaze you! The fourth of our Yugoslav Interlude episodes sees the Communist Party of Yugoslavia enjoying two impressive electoral achievements separated by 20 years in the political wilderness. Meanwhile, King Peter discovers the limits of royal influence, Stalin makes things easier for us, and it turns out that its a lot easier to create a new world when the old one has been reduced to ashes. Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. You can learn more about Lenapehoking, the Lenape people, and ongoing efforts to honor the relationship between the land and indigenous peoples by visiting the websites of the Delaware Tribe and the…

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Hosts: Nina, Thom

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Organizations: Communist Party of Yugoslavia, Delaware Tribe, Lenape Center

Places: Lenapehoking

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