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Satire and Parody
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RADIO AND PRINT:
ENGLISH :: RUSSIAN

American Statesman with Karen Schoen.
Oleg Atbashian talks about his books, satire, Trump
July 9, 2019
(Listen to abridged podcast)

Andrea Shea King Show: Oleg Atbashian and the story of his artwork now being used to raise money for Margaret Thatcher statue in the UK - March 21, 2013
(Listen to abridged podcast)

Oleg Atbashian: We are Bleeding to Death from Something Much Worse than Theater Shootings
July 26, 2012

The Radio Jihad Show - Mama Mia No Shariah
On CAIR and other Islamic groups in America
June 25, 2012 - Oleg's interview starts at 39:35
(Listen to abridged podcast)

Dr. Rich Swier Show - 1490 WWPR Talk Suncoast radio
Oleg Atbashian on private and public sector unions, socialism and America - June 11, 2012
(Listen to podcast)

THE ANDREA SHEA KING SHOW
Oleg Bash of The People's Cube - May 3, 2012
(Listen to abridged podcast)

Backbone Radio 710 AM KNUS in Denver and
1460 AM KZNT in Colorado Springs
W/ talk show host Ross Kaminsky - Aug. 28, 2011

Backbone Radio 710 AM KNUS in Denver
and 1460 AM KZNT in Colorado Springs
W/ talk show host Ross Kaminsky - Sept. 11, 2011

Austin, TX - KLGO FM 99.3 / 98.5 - The WORD
Arise Shine Program with hosts Dan & Laurie Purkis
September 25, 2011

Obama: The Pitchfork Operator-in-Chief
Article by radio talk show host Dr. Rich Swier (Sarasota, Fl) that is based on excerpts from Shakedown Socialism

Colorado Springs Radio - 740 KVOR
with host Richard Randall - local Rush Limbaugh channel, August 23, 2011

Austin Access TV - Lipstick and Politics Show
with Mary Ann Mayfield and Priscilla Fletcher
(Video not available) Sept. 25, 2011

RBN (Republic Broadcasting Network)
KHFX 1140AM in Texas, plus various other states
The Unsolicited Opinion with Maggie Roddin - 2-hour radio interview, Sept. 30, 2011

NewsRadio 850 KOA - Denver, Colorado
One-hour interview with Mike Rosen
( Listen to podcast) Feb.3, 2011

Maggie Roddin @ KHNC 1360 AM in Colorado
The Unsolicited Opinion: Wednesday with Oleg Atbashian, author of Shakedown Socialism
(Listen to podcast)

Bobby Gunther Walsh - WAEB AM790 (Clear Channel)
A series of three interviews (1/31-2/2/2011)

The Drive Time Happy Hour - The Sky 97.3 FM News Talk - Gainesville, FL
Half-hour interview with Chip Morris and Mr. PC
(Listen to MP3 file)

TEA PARTY CENTRAL US
One-hour interview at at OMG WTF LOL! show with host Rhonda Omberg
(Blogtalkradio - Houston, TX)

TEA Party Power Hour
One-hour interview with host Mark Gillar
(Blogtalkradio - Bryan, TX)

WNJC 1360 AM (Philadelphia) The Unsolicited Opinion: One-hour radio with Maggie Roddin - Part 2 (podcast)

WNJC 1360 AM (Philadelphia) The Unsolicited Opinion: One-hour radio with Maggie Roddin - Part 1 (podcast)

Chimpsy's Real American 87, Florida
The CRA Christmas Show with a special guest Oleg Atbashian (15 min podcast)

Conscience of Kansas - WildCat 91.9:
Talk show host Paul Ibbetson intervies Atbashian
(podcast)

The Tulane Hullabaloo:
Atbashian discusses dangers of socialism

WINA Radio (Charlottesville, VA):
The Rob Schilling Show (available on podcast)

Political Mavens:
Shakedown Socialism by Julia Gorin

Death By 1000 Papercuts (DBKP):
Recognize the socialist/progressive racket before it destroys your life: read Shakedown Socialism

Hot Tea Radio:
The Rock World Wide Show with Trey Roberts (available on podcast)

WSHO Radio, New Orleans:
An hour-long interview with Kathleen Benfield on her show The Current Word (available on podcast)

iOTW CONTEST:
Best manipulative demand to receive a free autographed copy of Shakedown Socialism

Death By 1000 Papercuts:
Shakedown Socialism: Progress to Nowhere

Michelle Obama's Mirror:
Socialism You Can BELIEVE IN!

The Union News:
Obamunists ♥ Shakedown Socialism

Julia Gorin:
The Book I’ve Been Waiting For

RUSSIAN

RTN Russian TV Network, New York (1 hr):
Русский телеканал Нью-Йорка
Интервью (1 час) Ведущий - Борис Тенцер

Chicago Russian Radio - 1 hr interview (MP3)
Радио Народная Волна (Чикаго)
Интервью (1 час). Ведущий - Сергей Зацепин

Chicago Russian Radio - 2 hr interview (MP3)
Радио Народная Волна (Чикаго)
Интервью (2 часa). Ведущий - Сергей Зацепин

Chicago Russian Radio Blog
Радио Народная Волна (Чикаго)
Дополнительная информация об авторе

Novoye Russkoye Slovo - Новое Русское Слово:
Socialism in the USA? (Социализм в США? - Алексей ОРЛОВ)

VIDEO:

Oleg Atbashian's Remarks at the Social Media Neutrality Panel at Newseum in Washington DC, 2/6/2018

Glenn Beck's GBTV (Blaze): Interview on B.S. of A. Comedy Show with Brian Sack

Living Under Marxism is a Joke
Interview with Cliff Kincaid for America's Survival channel on Roku, now also on YouTube.

Video Interview on PJTV with Alexis Garcia
Shakedown Socialism in America

King Street Patriots in Houston, TX (with Q&A)
Edited live podcast of an interview with Catherine Engelbrecht - 48 min

Liberty on the Rocks in Colorado Springs (with Q&A)
Edited live podcast, hosted by David Kelly - 37 min

Oleg Atbashian Talks About Shakedown Socialism to Lehigh Valley Tea Party (58 min)

Obama reads SHakedown Socialism

Satire and Parody

MICHELLE MALKIN: "One of the coolest, edgiest parody sites mocking the Marxist left is The People’s Cube. I’ve linked their photoshops and satire several times over the past several years."

RUSH LIMBAUGH: "A Stalinist version of The Onion."

DEBBIE SCHLUSSEL: "Our eternal fave fake news site"

BARRY RUBIN: "The funniest satire ever on how American history is being taught today."

THOMAS LIFSON: "The People's Cube is one of the funniest satirical websites, run by Oleg Atbashian, who honed his appreciation for the immorality of leftism by growing up in Soviet-era Ukraine and finding employment as an agitprop artist there, before defecting to the West. In the interest of full disclosure, Oleg is a friend of mine."

ThePeoplesCube.com satirizes current political events pretending to see the world through the eyes of the Stalinist Politburo (with occasional off-character editorials). It was started in 2005 by Oleg Atbashian, an ex-Soviet immigrant in the US, who is also a writer and graphic artist. Today the site has many contributors and followers inside the US and worldwide, who think of it as "the funniest website ever." Materials from The People's Cube have been reprinted in The New York Post, Advertising Age, The Telegraph (NH), The Florida Jewish News, The Province (Vancouver), and newspapers in Great Britain, Australia, and Israel. Its satirical articles, cartoons, and parodies have been translated into French, German, Russian, Hebrew, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese. They are often featured on popular right-leaning political websites, such as, JewishWorldReview.com, Insrtapundit.com, MichelleMalkin.com, pjmedia.com, BigHollywood.Breitbart.com, and many others. Left-leaning websites, such as, VillageVoice.com and Politico.com have also featured and quoted its materials. ThePeoplesCube.com is currently syndicated by Google News.

Previous Media Interviews

American Thinker: Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot

Moonbat Central: What Would Lenin Say?: The "People’s Cube" Knows!

Since David Horowitz's Moonbat Central has been discontinued and the link to the original interview may soon become defunct, the text is reproduced here in its entirety:

What Would Lenin Say?: The "People’s Cube" Knows!
By Rocco DiPippo @ Sunday 22 May 2005, 7:54 pm

While at the Free Muslims Coalition "March Against Terror" rally last week, I ran into Oleg Atbashian, who along with his friend Brian McCarthy, created the popular Communists for Kerry (CFK) website.

Before moving to the U.S. eleven years ago, Atbashian lived in the Ukraine where he sometimes worked as a propaganda artist for the old Soviet regime, creating agitprop posters for the local Party Committee in a small town. During that time, Oleg says he "witnessed the transition of Soviet republics from corrupt socialism to corrupt kleptocracy."

When he arrived in the U.S., Atbashian was puzzled by the "level of delusional affection for all things Left among the ‘liberal’ intellectual elites who take America’s exclusive well-being for granted." At that time Oleg dismissed this "delusional affection" as silly and of little consequence.

Then 9/11 happened. Oleg witnessed that day from the base of the Twin Towers. "I’m still haunted by the horror I came to be a witness of," says Atbashian. "The subsequent blame-America attitude among the intellectual trend-setters enraged me; ‘liberalism’ no longer seemed laughable. It was dangerous suicidal madness that had to be confronted. I took up political activism."

Oleg’s activism blossomed into the satirical street-theater group, "Communists for Kerry." Atbashian says that, "Communists For Kerry" was started in July, 2004 as a six-member satirical group with the stated goals of helping Bush get re-elected and having a lot of fun in the process. I was the group’s writer, graphic artist, and webmaster. The project exceeded our expectations. Our last street theater event on Union Square in New York featured over 30 volunteers in communist costumes; many more people joined us online from all over the USA. We even had a sister group in Australia, and people wearing CFK shirts at a rally in Paris, France."

CFK’s website became an internet hit during the 2004 elections and today, seven months after the elections, it still receives over 1000 visitors per day.

Nevertheless, Atbashian, not one to rest on past accomplishments, has published a new site called The People’s Cube. Says Oleg, "The People’s Cube, was launched on April 1, 2005 as a sequel to CFK. The title comes from an idea we developed in CFK: a Rubik’s cube with all six sides red-an ultimate symbol of political correctness, feel-good morality, and collectivist ethics: nobody is too smart or slow-everybody is equal! The new site continues to develop the same satirical themes, forms, and characters, such as, Lenin and Laika the Space Dog, but also constantly adds new ones as it grows every week with the help of an online community that has gathered around it. Anyone can contribute. People from Washington, Pennsylvania, Texas, Nevada, Virginia, and other states post their comments, come up with funny characters, and some eventually start their own colwnns. I’m hoping to turn it into a nation-wide community portal of spontaneous political humor and parody for conservatives, libertarians, objectivists, and anyone who supports and celebrates America’s freedoms, individual rights, and capitalism."

If you enjoy dead-on political satire, clever graphics and gut-busting humor, " The People’s Cube" is not to be missed.

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Political Opinion and Cultural Commentary:

FrontPage Mag: CrowdStrike: a Conspiracy Wrapped in a Conspiracy Inside a Conspiracy
FrontPage Mag: Facebook-Google-Twitter 1984
FrontPage Mag: The People's Cube: Blocked By the Department of Defense
FrontPage Mag: Comrade Psychiatrist is Unhappy With Trump's "Delusional Reformism"
FrontPage Mag: How to Beat the Cis-Culture by Making up Progressive Words
FrontPage Mag: American Gyno-Stalinism on the Ruins of Shagadelic Utopia
FrontPage Mag: Karl Marx to Resign, Ditch Legacy Due to Sexual Misconduct
FrontPage Mag: 100,000 Pieces of Agitprop to be Sent to the White House
FrontPage Mag: Democrats Must Dig Faster and Use Bigger Shovels
FrontPage Mag: We Know Something That Most Americans Don't
FrontPage Mag: How the Collapse of the USSR Felt from the Inside
FrontPage Mag: Russia: The Age of Mythology with Nuclear Rockets
FrontPage Mag: Centers for Islamic Studies: a Cold-War-Style Influence Operation?
FrontPage Mag: The Great October: A Revolution Financed By an Enemy Government
FrontPage Mag: Russian Nativity Play: A Tale of Two Josephs
FrontPage Mag: Preserve Your Dictator! (An Infomercial)
FrontPage Mag: Inside Every Liberal Is A Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out
FrontPage Mag: 50 Shades Of CIA
FrontPage Mag: This Is What Islamic Supremacism Looks Like
Bombthrowers: Women's March leaves millions of needy cats starving for attention...
Bombthrowers: Cracking the liberal code: "Love and Hate" instructional video
Bombthrowers: Soviet-style abuse of psychiatry is now practiced in the U.S.
Bombthrowers: It's March 8th – Happy International Women's Day!
Bombthrowers: Wikipedia deletes The People's Cube from history
Bombthrowers: Militant snowflake: new insignia for social justice warrior
Bombthrowers: Conservatives under attack: Wikipedia volunteers needed!
American Thinker: Some of my best friends are Trump supporters
American Thinker: Why socialists need capitalism
American Thinker: Killing Nemtsov: Predicted by Putin, Carried Out by the Motherland
American Thinker: Who Killed Boris Nemtsov: The Chaff vs. the Wheat
American Thinker: Russia Denies Shooting down Santa's Sleigh, Blames Western ...
American Thinker: 'Ebola in America' and other fake problems our leaders love to fight
American Thinker: Defeat ISIS in the comfort of your own home
American Thinker: Russia Complains about Mocking Soviet Monuments!
American Thinker: A children's problem to test the aptitude of politicians
American Thinker: Conservatives Seize the Sub Par Counter-Culture
American Thinker: Ariel Castro, Cleveland Kidnapper, Is a Registered Democrat
American Thinker: Candidate Promises Statue of Free Cheese in Norman, OK
American Thinker: The Collectivist Mind Game, Part 3: Demonizing Human Nature
American Thinker: The Collectivist Mind Game, Part 2: Demonizing the Opposition
American Thinker: The Collectivist Mind Game, Part 1: Demonizing the Non-Compliant
American Thinker: Pravda, Guns, and America
American Thinker: The Socialist Mind Game: A Brief Manual
American Thinker: 'Women in Binders' and the Fantasies of the Left
American Thinker: Economic Inequality is a Small Price to Pay for Staying Human
American Thinker: The Theater Shooter Is Caught, but the Real Joker Keeps Laughing
American Thinker: If Only the Romans had the EPA to Crucify the Dissenters
American Thinker: A Lenin's Birthday Story
American Thinker: Deconstructing the Liberal Media's Funny Bone
PJ Media: Dear White Male Students: You Are Trash
PJ Media: Why Did Ukraine Just Outlaw Communism and Nazism?
PJ Media: Why Sexy Wartime Pinups Are Back in Style -- This Time in Ukraine
PJ Media: Putin Named 'Man of the Year' in Organized Crime Category
PJ Media: Stalin Wishes Happy New Year to the People of Crimea
PJ Media: Putin Manhandles Obama in Moscow's Propaganda Art Gallery
PJ Media: Protester Raises Ukrainian Flag over Moscow's Symbolic Stalinist Spire
PJ Media: Thanks, Russia, but We'll Mock Obama Without Your Help
PJ Media: Sarcastic Posters Meet Obama at Silicon Valley Fundraiser
PJ Media: Did Pro-Russian Rebels Shoot This Video of the MH17 Impact?
PJ Media: GM Is Alive. Drivers Are Dead. Any Questions?
PJ Media: The Real Meaning of Soviet Agitprop in Jay Carney's Kitchen
PJ Media: Obama 'Sub Par' Posters Blanket Augusta Masters
PJ Media: 'Come on, you old broads!' -- Ukrainian Women Get Ready for Putin
PJ Media: Barack Obama Banned from Russian Store that Sells Honey
PJ Media: Did Russian Intelligence Promote Obama from Lieutenant to Colonel?
PJ Media: Russian Nationalists Riot, Maim and Kill Pro-Ukrainian Demonstrators...
PJ Media: Shocking Police Brutality in Ukraine; Riots Spreading to Major Cities
PJ Media: Mix Soviet Posters with American Pin-ups, Get 2014 Olympics Calendar
PJ Media: Obey the Establishment: Shepard Fairey's Subliminal Art Message
PJ Media: How Thatcher Changed Hearts and Minds Behind the Iron Curtain
PJ Media: Larry Grathwohl, Hero
PJ Media: The Audacity of Notes
PJ Media: Alternative Tips for Avoiding a U.S. Drone Strike
PJ Media: Skeeter President: Mock on, Americans
PJ Media: The Low-Information Voter's Guide to Politics
PJ Media: Obama's Tax Cuts: The Sucker at the Table
PJ Media: 'You Didn't Build That' and the Darkness of Collective Punishment
PJ Media: Russia's Middle Finger for Hillary's Reset Button
PJ Media: Pamela Geller's Book Stop the Islamization of America Is a Work of Love...
PJ Media: Obama and Me
PJ Media: Those Who Forget History Are Doomed to Have Their Junk Squeezed
PJ Media: Says a Skilled Former Liar: 'Obama's Using My Old Act!'
PJ Media: Question Insanity: What to Ask Progressives
Big Hollywood: Cracking the Obama Code: Don Quixote vs. the Windmill Owners
Big Hollywood: Every Man Has A Right to the Left (and other revisionist neo-proverbs)
Jewish World Review: City to New Yorkers on 9/11: All You Need is Love
Political Mavens: Hey, Waters! Leave the Jews Alone!
PJ Media: The Professional Left vs. the Amateur Right
PJ Media: ‘Communist for Kerry’ Now GOP Congressional Candidate
PJ Media: Pimp Your Mosque!
PJ Media: Obama: Al-Qaeda Racists Give Radicals a Bad Name
PJ Media: News of Rahm-Obama Split Identical to Trotsky-Stalin Reports
PJ Media: What if China Bailed Out America?
PJ Media: America Awakes: Reflections on 9/12
PJ Media: America Awakes: Reflections on 9/12 (Part II)
PJ Media: ‘The CIA Did It’: Conspiracy Theories in the Service of the ‘Common Good’
PJ Media: We Are the Children: Sing in Unison to Save a Dictator
PJ Media: Whose Sovereignty Is Obama Respecting?
PJ Media: A U.S. President, Raised on KGB Propaganda
PJ Media: Obama’s Quest into the Magic World of Anti-American Mythology
PJ Media: Obama Regresses to Cold War Mythology … and Switches Sides
PJ Media: Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down Half This Wall
PJ Media: Obama the Pitchfork Operator: A Remake of the Soviet Classic
PJ Media: How Do You Say ‘Hillary’s Gaffe’ in Russian?
PJ Media: Laughing at the Contradictions of Socialism in America
PJ Media: Want ‘Hope and Change’? Buy a Goat
PJ Media: Obama Supporter Assaults Female McCain Volunteer in New York
PJ Media: Communists for Obama
PJ Media: Art from Body Parts: Not Just For Nazis Anymore
PJ Media: The Truth Behind ‘Conservative’ Humor
PJ Media: Culture = A Massive Sham Perpetrated by Rich Capitalist Oppressors
PJ Media: A People’s History: The “Progressive” Version
PJ Media: Our Degenerating Media [Part 1]
PJ Media: Our Degenerating Media [Part 2]
PJ Media: Our Degenerating Media [Part 3]
PJ Media: Boris Yeltsin: Lessons for America
PJ Media: Boris Yeltsin: Lessons for America (Part Two)
PJ Media: Bowling For Virginia Tech: Who Made Him Do This?
PJ Media: The Gospel of John & Yoko: The Origins of Mad Morality
Globus (Russian-Israeli weekly): Заблудившийся спасаться категорически отказывается (PDF)

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