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100: Julia Ioffe - Update on The War in Ukraine

The Al Franken Podcast

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Is Putin Going to Call Up Quietly?

The stories coming out of Russia these days are totally insane. You have teachers reporting on their middle school students to the police and vice versa. This is sort of a Kafka totalitarian state, even worse than it was before this war. Any kind of dissent has been really truly criminalized because you can't criticize the armed forces. Anything that diverges from the official line of the military or the Kremlin is considered disinformation and therefore criminal.

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