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The Merchant of Death: Arms Dealer Viktor Bout

The Underworld Podcast

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Victor Boot's Story Is Not Normal, Right?

Victor Boot's story starts in 1967 in Tajikistan, then part of the Soviet Union. According to a 2012 New Yorker feature by Nicholas Schmiedel, Boot can read 15 or 16 languages and fluently speak 5 or 6. "It's like amazing how many international crime lords have switched on to languages"

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