Wagner vs Putin: A History of Russian Coups
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Lack of Optimism in the Russian People
The idea that there is some innate willingness of the Russian people to accept extraordinary hardship and risk what they have is historically illiterate. Commentators need to stop comparing Putin's regime to the Soviet Union, he says. For many Russians, and especially Russians in the big power centers, the last decades have been decades of peace,. He adds: 'No one is offering an improved ideological future here'
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