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A Soviet Reunion: Michael McFaul On What Putin Wants

GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

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Is Puton Anatonis Agent?

The deal with nationalists in the democratic movement in the soviet union definitely predates pot. It was, it goes all the way back to bors yeltson. Boris yelson thought if he was going to do that, that would lead to a counter revolution from those forces. And as a result of that co option they did in the nineties. The oligarchs made their money through these corrupts and loans for shares programmes before 98 happened. They basically landed on the sky puton. But i want to be clear'm not going to prejudge whether they had the power to do it or not.

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