Pudin has absurdly claimed that he wants to denaify the ukranian government. He also notably blamed the bolsheviks what he describes as the artificial creation of eukraine. Pudin is a russian nationalist by inclination, and he has been very consistent about this. But i've never previously thought of him as an ethnic russian nationalist.
Tony Wood returns to The Dig to discuss Russia’s invasion, what it reflects about Russian politics and geopolitics today and historically, and how the Left should be thinking about it all.
Tony's LRB essay: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n04/tony-wood2/why-didn-t-they-stop-it
Listen to past Dig eps for context on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine:
Tony Wood on Russia and Putin: thedigradio.com/podcast/russia-beyond-putin-with-tony-wood
Volodymyr Ishchenko on Ukraine: thedigradio.com/podcast/ukraine-w-volodymyr-ishchenko
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