How Putin created the most threatening regime in the world – with Michael Thumann
Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes
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The Role of History and Putin's Role Models From Russian History
I think the most accurate picture is probably when we see him on these TV pictures in a small chapel, when he is talking to only to God. And I think there is no major advisor, there is no vice president and there is no Vice President whom he takes seriously enough to really have an exchange among equals. So this is basically his Champions League in which he thinks he is playing. This is of course also what he aspires to as his historical legacy to achieve something like Stalin did or like Peter the Great who vastly expanded Russia's territory. The Great Patriotic War to liberate Ukraine from the fascists as the Red Army has done in the Second World War from the German fascists. Yeah.
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