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Putin’s People: A Times Book of the Year 2021 – The Story of Russia’s History and Politics
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What we know about Putin so far:
- He worked in East Germany for five years
- His grandfather was Lenin’s personal chef
- He once stayed at Tony Blair’s place and drank coffee in his pajamas
- In the 1980s, he was in New Zealand under the alias André, working as a shoe salesman
Russians With Attitudex.com
A tremendous amount of ground covered:
“Justin Trudeau and I got along very well, but there were natural differences in that he is very Liberal, and I, to put it mildly, am not. It will be very interesting to see how we do in the future, but first, I have to get there.
His mother was beautiful and wild. In... See more
Trump was first approached by the Soviet Union’s KGB by 1980, was compromised by its agents repeatedly over the ensuing decades, and has behaved as a Russian asset since, most obviously after he became president.
Craig Unger • American Kompromat
Yeah, you know, when the majority of Rs believe that Russia is a communist dictatorship, you realize that these sorts of people are the backbone of the party. https://t.co/02pjCtBw5D
of two Russian figures—Vladimir Lenin and the much lesser known Vladislav Surkov, a former postmodernist theater director who’s been described as “Putin’s Rasputin” and the Kremlin’s propaganda puppet master—informs many of the troubling political and social dynamics at work in the post-truth era.
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
Putin on Michael Gloss, son of a CIA deputy director who was killed in action while fighting in the Russian army. Says he was killed while providing first aid to a wounded comrade. "People like him are the core of MAGA". Says he was a brave man & Americans should be proud of him https://t.co/jvxmu2u5RP
Russians With Attitudex.com
The latest fad in American liberal academia and media circles is to carve the world into “Autocrats vs. Democrats.” As if geopolitics were a schoolyard debate with neat binaries, easy villains and applause lines for the faithful.
On Russia, the old Cold War hymn sheet is dragged out again: Putin as a messianic... See more
John Pilger: Putin is popular because he restored Russia from chaos and won back its independence.
This is unacceptable to the Western elites. https://t.co/8u5dKuRk0W
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evilx.com