67. Putin's Propaganda
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The History of the Left-to-Centre Press
There is this kind of strange legacy, isn't there, of USSR and the kind of natural sympathy that Labour felt for the old USSR. And as a result, it is quite tricky for them to paint even modern Russia in the same light. This is exactly the same reason which we've also mentioned on the pod a couple of times, why Africa, with its old links to the USSR, the freedom fighting of the 1980s, 1990s,. It's also why they find it very difficult to criticise Russia and have this sort of natural affinity. So you're probably not that surprised, are you? What I am surprised is how long that left nostalgia lasted for.
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