Buondì. Volgograd is a city in south-west Russia, apparently. Pictures on the internet show green parks and an attractive river. I’d probably heard of it before writing this, but have never thought of visiting. Well why would I? Turns out that Volgograd used to be known as Stalingrad (named for a Russian dictator, Stalin) and, due […]
Archives for September 2023
Italy joins WWII / Mussolini speech / Customer of the month
Buondì. I’ll keep this brief, as I’ve wasted time answering ‘customer service’ emails, which is always the first job of a morning. That’s because things come in all through the night while I’m asleep, but the USA is still up, and Australia and New Zealand have already started tomorrow. So below is the link to […]
WWII begins / NEW ‘easy Italian reader’ -25% this week
Buondì. As you’ll have observed from the title of this article, there are two things I have to tell you this Monday morning. First off, we’re into the final two weeks of our ten-week-long, thirty-part Summer Series of articles with online audio. We began in July, way back in the nineteenth century, so proper history! […]
Fascist propaganda and the ‘Italian Hollywood’
Buondì. After Wednesday’s article, promoting Episode 23 in our Summer Series, which featured Fascist Italy’s disgraceful invasion of Ethiopia, I had several people write to me saying they’d watched the film linked to at the end and found it really interesting. Well done to them! Plus there was one stupid person whose point, I think, […]