I used AI for the Lion's Share of the voicing, so the Russian pronunciation is often completely incorrect. Also, this represents a pretty broad overview of history, society, and literature. I'd like to get deeper into each of these themes (as I would like to think I have in some of my other videos), but everything flows.

Source of economic data:
25 Years of Transition: Post-Communist Europe and the IMF:
https://www.imf.org/external/region/bal/rr/2014/25_years_of_transition.pdf

German continuity:

Deutsche Welle on the German Empire's genocide of Namibia, one of the German Empire's many crimes against humanity:
https://youtu.be/jgyOYdxirxk?si=G_boZV59Q7dVayyl

Spectacles on German bureaucracy and its influence:
https://youtu.be/-BgbxsKIKs8

Hans Georg Mueller on German essence:
https://youtu.be/c-Wtr5Bq710

Everything Flows:
https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Flows-Review-Books-Classics/dp/1590173287?ref=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=2189e3a5-c2d5-4d6e-b3f1-7cafb76b4c69

A biography of MLK (King: A Life by Jonathan Eng):
https://www.amazon.com/King-Life-Jonathan-Eig/dp/0374279292

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus:
https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Sisyphus-Other-Essays/dp/0679733736?ref=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=8910a3ca-0e87-462e-aa14-3be42ba0e517