Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Bunkers! Fraud! A guy robbing a bank with a rocket launcher! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2000/03/jarvis.htm https://unherd.com/2022/01/how-albania-became-a-pyramid-scheme/ https://theculturetrip.com/europe/albania/articles/the-pyramid-crisis-in-albania/ https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/albania.htm

Joe is Joined by the crew of the Brigham Young Money Podcast as they regale him with the story of militant mormonism. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

"A nation for a nation" Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://apnews.com/article/tel-aviv-international-news-israel-ap-top-news-69cb4cdfab7d416a968b95aef87d18c1 https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-an-eye-for-an-eye-jews-who-sought-to-kill-germans-in-revenge-for-the-holocaust-1.8094962 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/26/second.world.war Lang, Berel (1996). "Holocaust Memory and Revenge: The Presence of the Past". Jewish Social Studies

Monte becomes one of the greatest military commanders in Armenian history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

Monte joins the Armenian Secret Army and sets off on an international mission of "armed propaganda" Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

The story of how a regular kid from a California suburb ended up as a military hero of Armenia. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Melkonian, Markar. My Brother's Road: An American's Fateful Journey to Armenia

At the end of WWII a group of French POWs went looking for help and ended up taking part in one of the weirdest battles in military history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32622651 https://www.historynet.com/the-battle-for-castle-itter.htm https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/itter-castle-strangest-battle-world-war-ii-152721

One the nazis stormed into Poland at the opening stages of World War II it was not soldiers, trench lines, or pill boxes that they had to conquer first. Instead, it was the Danzig Post Office. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/employees-danzig-post-office-fought-germans-15-hours-invasion-poland-captured htmlhttps://libcom.org/history/defence-polish-post-office-danzig https://web.archive.org/web/20060502021616/http://www.1939.pl/epizody/poczta_gdansk.htm

Rwanda invades Congo using a fleet of hijacked planes to spark the Second Congo War. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://warisboring.com/bomb-the-other-side-of-the-runway/ https://www.economist.com/international/1998/09/03/heading-for-an-african-war https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1998/08/25/angola-sends-thousands-of-troops-to-back-kabila/c5da7c99-0f4a-469a-8a32-a74d46b79a0d/ https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/10/world/pilot-s-account-seems-to-confirm-rwanda-role-in-congo-strife.html

A group of nazis, KKK, and gangsters Voltron together to come up with the dumbest attempted invasion in American history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Bell, Stewart. The Bayou of Pigs http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/ron-paul-was-implicated-in-attempted-white-supremacist-island-invasion/

Eugene Debs organizes the working class and fights back against American entry into WWI. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fiery-socialist-challenged-nations-role-wwi-180969386/ https://debsfoundation.org/index.php/landing/debs-biography/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/wilson-eugene-debs/

South Korea starts an assassination squad made out of petty criminals and dudes who look kind of in shape. Hilarity does not ensue. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/18/asia/south-korea-failed-assassination-squad-unit-684-intl/index.html http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20050824000044 https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/world/south-korean-movie-unlocks-door-on-a-once-secret-past.html

In the conclusion of our series Vietnam liberates Cambodia and slaps around another world power. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

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Episode 134 - The Khmer Rouge Part 2: Year Zero by

Part 1 of 4 on the rise and fall of the Khmer Rouge sources for all 4 episodes: Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison A Cambodian odyssey The Pol Pot Regime When The War Was Over: Cambodia And The Khmer Rouge Revolution Cambodia: Year Zero Vickery, Micheal. Cambodia, 1975-1982 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

Our first episode ever was about Luigi Cadorna. A lot has changed in the last nearly 3 years so we decided to redo the whole thing during a charity live stream. During the stream we raised over 5,000$ for displaced and at need victims of the recent war in Armenia. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

naval incompetence, sharks, and suicide oh my! Support the show :https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/ships/modern-ships/indianapolis.html https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/surviving-sinking-uss-indianapolis https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/s/sinking-ussindianapolis/narrative-of-the-circumstances.html https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23455951 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-worst-shark-attack-in-history-25715092/

During WWII partisans came in all shapes, sizes, and ages. And sometimes death was 15 years old and riding a bicycle. Listen to It Came From the Sea @fromtheseapod Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/nazi-germany-dutch-resistance-freddie-truus-oversteegen-hannie-schaft-a9188306.html https://www.history.com/news/dutch-resistance-teenager-killed-nazis-freddie-oversteegen Poldermans, Sophie. Seducing and Killing Nazis: Hannie, Truus and Freddie: Dutch Resistance Heroines of WWII

The conclusion of the Third Servile War Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys follow us on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lionsledbydonkeyspod