Apparently, Maria Snegovaya survived visiting us in the bunker in Season 1. So we decided to invite Maria again, this time to talk about her recent article, "Dissecting Putin's regime ideology," which she co-authored together with Jade McGlynn: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1060586X.2024.2386838.

Jade appeared on our pod as well, and we had a nice chat about evil Anglo-Saxons plotting against Moscow: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/in-the-bunker-with-darth-putin/id1732865476?i=1000648848793

In this episode:

• Darth is messign with his mic
• Dive into Maria's publication: Does Putin have an ideology?
• How to research the elites using open sources
• Indoctrination in culture and education
• Do Russians really believe this ideology?
• What Russians are being told about the unpleasantries of Ukraine's offensive