# KunstlerCast 433 — Piero San Giorgio Has Just Returned from Russia

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Podcast: [KunstlerCast - Conversations: Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century](https://stenobird.com/podcast/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680)
Published: 2025-11-09T18:47:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 4034

## Resource

Piero San Giorgio is one of Switzerland's best selling authors. After 20 years as an executive in the software business, Piero decided to write essays about the future. His first book Survive —The Economic Collapse was in the top-50 best selling books of 2012 in France and has sold over 200,000 copies, with translations into English, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Romanian, Polish, Turkish etc. and has a foreword by JHKunstler. His other books are , CBRN (How to Survive Nuclear, Radiological, Biological,and Chemical events) , and Giuseppe: A Survival Story , a biographical novel about his grandfather's ordeals in WW2. The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by Larry Unger

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