Yugoslav Interlude Part 2: Exile and Grief

About this episode

The episode explores the activities of King Peter II's government-in-exile during the war years in London.

Show Notes This week on MSB: the second of our dedicated Yugoslavia episodes! In this installment, we return to London to meet the gang of "discredited and out of date politicians" who made up King Peter II's government-in-exile, and find out how they kept themselves busy during the war years. Ready? Go! 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 Manhattan-based Lenape Center . Listeners in the Americas and Oceania can learn more about the indigenous people of your area at https://native-land.ca/ . We would like to thank The Lenape Center for guiding us in creating this…

People in this episode

Hosts: Nina, Thom

Topics covered

• Yugoslavia
• government-in-exile
• war years
• politics
• history

Keywords

• Yugoslavia
• King Peter II
• government-in-exile
• politicians
• war history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Lenape Center

Places: London, Yugoslavia, New York City, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut, Oklahoma, Wisconsin

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