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Radio War Nerd EP 374 — Understanding Putin, with Philip Short

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The Monovs Account of His Adolescence

Philip Short: I for one was really surprised at how many parallel notes in the book on that. That's why we mentioned several times the monovs account of his own adolescence. Because he's of the same generation as Putin. Yeah, I also I translated one of just for myself a lemon of short story. Some years ago about when he was maybe more like 13 or so and Harkov, 13 or 14. And it's a story about this local gangster, Yurik Yurah Bembo Jewish Jewish Russian gangster who winds up getting arrested again for some other crime and executed.

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