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Episode 24: Can we escape history? (Part 1 of 2)
On Geopolitics
Is Russia's History Used and Abused More Than It's Used?
The current conflict was not inevitable, just because there was a historical claim to the Crimea doesn't mean it should be Russian now. And of course, Putin, I think has actually won on this point as you could argue that he has very successfully educated all of us in Russia's historical right to the territory that is now Ukraine. The narrative the Russians have basically sold is the narrative that we've accepted. Rediscovering it certainly, then you know, those narratives clash and we begin to see, I think as your contact said, the Imperial War Museum, that in a sense, we've been drawn into this conflict really through the prism of a highly sort of Russian narrative about what it means
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