The guest of the first episode of the Decolonisation series is Catherine Fieschi, a political scientist and one of the world’s leading experts on populism. She is also the author of the bestselling book “Populocracy: The Tyranny of Authenticity and the Rise of Populism”. In this episode, Catherine and Anastasiia Marushevska, editor-in-chief at Ukraїner International and co-founder of PR Army, focus on populism in Europe, examining both the left and right sides of the political spectrum.

This episode explores French populists Jean-Marie Le Pen, Marine Le Pen, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and why their rhetoric echoes that of the Soviet Union, as well as how antisemitism plays a role in their political agendas. Anastasiia and Catherine also discuss whether populism can be considered an ideology, how it exploits post-colonial sentiments, and why Ukraine’s resistance to Russian aggression has become a focal point in populist narratives around the world.

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