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A Soviet Reunion: Michael McFaul On What Putin Wants

GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

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I'm Cherry Picking Now, Neil

A, i wrote in the summer of 19 90 where i compared the french revolution and the bolshevik revolution to what i called the soviet revolution. And i walked through a very famous book, neil by crane briton, anatomy of revolution. I didn't say who it was, but i said, there will be this reaction, the counter revolution, and a strong man who will create law order. It turned out that hitler came from within the system. The nationalist populace leader with all the grievances came from within, not from without. That's a paradox. Like why did borish yeltzon make a bet on this guy?

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