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Wind of Change

Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify

Music, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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KYIV, UKRAINE, 2019: Patrick flies to Ukraine and witnesses how fully the political message of “Wind of Change” still resonates with fans at a Scorpions show in Kyiv. Plus: what does the CIA say when you come right out and ask about the agency’s connection to the band? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you're listening to this episode and don't want to wait till next week to hear where the story goes,
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0:13.4	A quick note before we begin, this series contains some language and topics that may not be suitable for young children.
0:21.4	Do you remember this song Wind of Change? Because like this, do you want to go?
0:25.2	I'm in Kiev, which if I'm being honest, I've always pronounced Kiev, but recently learned I've
0:47.2	been saying wrong my whole life. It's Kiev. It's mid-November and Kiev is all over the news.
0:55.3	Back in Washington, the House of Representatives is holding impeachment hearings into efforts by
0:59.4	Donald Trump to pressure Ukraine's president to investigate Joe Biden. Ukraine is trending on Twitter.
1:06.2	The president's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, may or may not be in Kiev himself right now,
1:10.6	attending at some shady business. If you're an investigative reporter, this is the biggest story in the
1:15.9	world. But that's not why I'm here. I'm standing outside the sports palace, a big stadium in the
1:23.6	center of town that dates back to the period when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union.
1:28.7	Nidus Fallon and I'm out here with a bunch of Ukrainians who are passing around two-liter bottles of
1:33.3	Pepsi that they've spiked with vodka. We're tailgaining before Scorpion's show.
1:48.3	This is a group of younger fans. They're in their 30s. They came all the way from Odessa,
1:52.8	which they tell me was a 10-hour drive. This is Sergei and his friend Yuri,
2:17.9	two beefy guys with blirri eyes and shaved heads. They look like bouncers, or guys who may be
2:23.2	freelance for the mob. But they're wearing Scorpion's t-shirts and big smiles and arguing about the
2:28.8	origins of wind of change. This song that, according to this story I heard, may have actually been
2:34.0	written by the CIA. They created this song as far as he remembers because the Soviet Union was
2:42.7	about to apart and it was like wind of change to that blows into something like a pile of evil.
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