Alexei Anisin, Ph.D.

Interview w/ Talk Eastern Europe, "Exclusive: Reflecting on mass shootings in Central and Eastern Europe"

on March 24, 2024

February 2024 – Interview w/ Talk Eastern Europe. Exclusive: Reflecting on mass shootings in Central and Eastern.

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Interview featured in Mladá fronta DNES, "In the post-Soviet space, civil disobedience doesn't work" July 23, 2022

While great amounts of attention have been given to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, there exist other interesting phenomena that can be observed in the post-soviet space. In recent weeks, I wrote a short piece highlighting the lack of success of civil resistance movements over the last several years.

Visiting Auschwitz Birkenau - the Epicenter of Historical Evil

Visiting Auschwitz On August 8, 2022, I drove 4.5 hours (around 455km) from Prague to the Polish town of Oświęcim, the location of the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau. Having lived in Central Europe for almost 5 years, I felt that was time to visit a place that represents a major portion of arguably the greatest tragedy of human history. In less than 5 years (1940-45), more than a million people were killed in a concentrated area. Indeed, the network of concentration camps that the Nazis set up ranged much further than just this one area, but this was the mecca of human extermination. Yet it seems that in Auschwitz, the worst of the worst occurred, and the tools and processes that were used to exterminate innocent people were truly evil. The methodologies that were used to exterminate people were variant. Nearly all prisoners were placed into barracks that were initially built for horses (e.g. horse stables) that were imported form Germany. There were around 2000 people in a si

Collection of interviews on the Prague Mass Shooting (CNN; BBC + more)

In light of the mass shooting in Prague and associated gruesome events, I am open and happy to answer any questions you may have pertaining to the deadliest mass shooting in Czech Republic history. Thus far, I have carried out interviews with the following agencies: 1 - CNN International 2 - TRT World 3 - BBC News 4 - BBC Radio International 5 - Italian " La Stampa " 6 - CNN Prima News (Czech) 7 - Spanish " El Pais " and second Below is a short video I made just a few hours after the incident which contains some interesting information.