ROGPR

Founded by Nikolaj Kazimirko-Kirillov (chief editor), “pigdog”, and myself in February 2017, the ROGPR podcast played a central role in launching the era of Russian nationalist podcasting in the less than a year of its existence.

Adopting the irreverent tone of its American inspirations, it covered contemporary hot topics from the kremlins’ geopolitical kerfuffles to American Alt Right drama, interwoven with HBD realism, video game commentary, and pigdog’s rap compositions. The memes it generated are legion, and have percolated throughout RuNat subculture.

However, it failed as an ideological project, as did the wider Sputnik & Pogrom network it belonged to. Its prime representative ended up dead in front of the restaurant “Armenia” two months before Z-Day, leaving Late Stage Duginism of recycled MAGA slop as the ascendant ideology of Late Stage Putinism.

The divergent fates of its three founders tell the story:

• Kazimirko flipped from Russian ultra-nationalism to NAFO after falling out with the RuNats (“Armenian Gypsies” Affair), and switched to the Anglo audience. He has since cornered the market on video essays about obscure Fallout mods… as the YouTuber Warlockracy.
• pigdog runs the major pro-war Z account Russians with Attitude together with Kirill Kaminets, a Russian writer and long-time Far Right activist based in Germany.
• And I am what I am… a blogger who has now thrown in the towel on Russian nationalism, and returned to my old status as a rootless cosmopolitan with no national identity.

But in their own way, all three testify to America’s total Culture Victory.

In retrospect, jail was always programmed.

The doomed story of Russian nationalism under Putinism is a fascinating one, and one I hope that will be told someday, beyond the scraps I dropped in Z of History and Jail for Rightoids. Perhaps I will find the time and energy for it before AI makes it redundant. If not, and someone else takes up the task, I hope this will be a useful orienteer.