161. Yeltsin, Economic Chaos and President Putin

The Rest Is History

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🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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[Episode 3 of 4]

'You certainly won't understand what ordinary Russians see in Vladimir Putin if you don't understand what happened in the 1990s. A time of utter, utter collapse.'

In part three of our Soviet Union, Russia and Putin series, Tom and Dominic drill down into the details of the chaos in 90s Russia, the laughing stock Yeltsin became on the global stage, and Putin's brutal rise to power on the back of the Second Chechen War.

The final episode in the series is out tomorrow - or get it now by heading to restishistorypod.com!

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0:33.9	Now Tom, you and I do a lot of talking but I think it's fair to say that we don't talk
0:37.8	about our mental health as much as we should do we?
0:41.2	No, it's very much the British way to bottle things up isn't it?
0:45.4	As you've often said to me, being human doesn't come with a user manual.
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0:56.3	I'm not really really bare my soul on this podcast or to talk about my feelings very
1:01.3	much but sometimes it's really important just to talk and to be honest about our experiences.
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