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

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The Importance of Class Hierarchy in the Life of Vladimir Putin

Putin is an unlikely great leader. He's a working class guy from a nobody, well, sort of nobody family. And it must have been a pretty devastating blow when everything went horribly, horribly wrong. It was kind of interesting reading your book how for lack of a better word kind of class hierarchical, those elite areas of the Soviet state where I know that's true.

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