{"podcast":{"title":"Letters from an American","slug":"letters-from-an-american-5323066","podcast_index_feed_id":5323066,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/20533.rss","website_url":"https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/20533/d8108611b5cdc00657825d77dc6029b1.jpg","author":"Heather Cox Richardson","episode_count":768,"summary":"A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/letters-from-an-american-5323066"},"episode":{"title":"Two Celebrations","slug":"two-celebrations","published_at":"2026-05-11T21:24:19+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/letters-from-an-american-5323066/two-celebrations","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/letters-from-an-american-5323066","url":"https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/two-celebrations","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/197268604/cd1115166ae18c3e4e2ac20bb25cf600.mp3","summary":"Russia celebrates Victory Day, the anniversary of its victory over the Nazis. Putin co-opts the holiday to showboat the country's military and boost morale and support for the Ukraine War. Putin has not achieved any of his initial goals in the Ukraine War. Putin fearmongers against NATO. A big celebration in Hungary but for another reason. Péter Magyar takes the oath of office as prime minister after winning a landslide victory over Putin ally Viktor Orbán, ending Orbán campaign against \"liberal democracy.\" Get full, free access to Letters from an American here: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribe You can also find me: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hcrichardson.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heathercoxrichardson/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heathercoxrichardson/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@heathercoxrichardson Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribe","meta_description":"Russia celebrates Victory Day, the anniversary of its victory over the Nazis. Putin co-opts the holiday to showboat the country's military and boost moral…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":779,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/letters-from-an-american-5323066/episodes/two-celebrations/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/letters-from-an-american-5323066/two-celebrations.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}