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Putin shocked and surprised pretty much everyone in Russia by launching a regime change war on Ukraine. Two days before that, he went on Russian TV and gave a menacing grievance speech — in which he attacked America but also went after the Bolsheviks, blaming the disintegration of the Soviet Union and today’s crisis in Ukraine squarely on Lenin.
Evgenia and I discuss his speech and talk about how it fits into the mushy national identity that Putin’s elite has been trying to cobble together for Russia.
—Yasha Levine
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By Yasha & Evgenia4.6
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Putin shocked and surprised pretty much everyone in Russia by launching a regime change war on Ukraine. Two days before that, he went on Russian TV and gave a menacing grievance speech — in which he attacked America but also went after the Bolsheviks, blaming the disintegration of the Soviet Union and today’s crisis in Ukraine squarely on Lenin.
Evgenia and I discuss his speech and talk about how it fits into the mushy national identity that Putin’s elite has been trying to cobble together for Russia.
—Yasha Levine
This is a preview of a full episode that is only available to subscribers. To hear the rest, sign up and listen here.
Catch up on some old eps:
* China's Olympic Menace and Immigrant Deprogramming with Carl Zha
* “Navalny,” the documentary
* The Ayahuasca Special
* Christmas Special: Ghost of Epstein
* St. Paul of Amsterdam
* Immigrant Deprogramming with Nika Dubrovsky
* Imaginary Futures with Richard Barbrook
* Behind the Silicon Curtain
* The Soviet Jew & good riddance Los Feliz
* “I didn’t want to live in a simulacrum of American life in the ruins of the Soviet Union”
* Watching American movies in the USSR ft. Boris Levine
* Anti-Soviet identities in the USSR
* The End
* Breeders
* Adam Curtis, get out of my head
* Navalny, the Kremlin, and the curse of neoliberalism

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