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Lessons from a 'totalitarian mafia state' (Part I)
Russia's President Vladimir Putin was an agent of the KGB — the Soviet Union's secret police. It's no accident that he's now the leader of a post-Soviet country controlled once again by bureaucrats who were never purged in the interests of freedom and democracy. Masha Gessen is a journalist who left Putin's Russia.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readRussia's President Vladimir Putin was an agent of the KGB — the Soviet Union's secret police. It's no accident that he's now the leader of a post-Soviet country controlled once again by bureaucrats who were never purged in the interests of freedom and democracy. Masha Gessen is a journalist who left Putin's Russia. Her latest book is The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia. (Listen to Part II.)
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3 of 3A month later, Puerto Ricans still stranded by Hurricane Maria- 1:22Iraqi forces seize portions of Kurdistan
- 7:57In Puerto Rico, still no sense of relief
- 38:05Lessons from a 'totalitarian mafia state' (Part I)You’re reading this