Best of 2023: How Putin might fall: A lesson from 1991
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🗓️ 31 December 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In the week between Christmas and New Year, we’re listening back to some of our favourite episodes of 2023.
Vladimir Putin may have averted an armed rebellion by Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin – but if the fall of Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991 tells us anything, it's that even a failed coup can still spell ruin for a leader.
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| 0:44.0 | With a sugar rush of Christmas behind us, |
| 0:47.0 | and while everyone's building up for the new year, |
| 0:49.0 | we thought we'd bring you a week of highlights |
| 0:52.0 | with some of our favorite episodes from |
| 0:54.4 | 2023. In today's episode, following the failed rebellion by the leader of the |
| 1:00.4 | Wagner group of Guinea-Pregosian against Vladimir Putin back in June. |
| 1:05.0 | We looked back to 1991 and the fall of the Soviet Union. |
| 1:11.0 | Progosian's march on Moscow was quashed and two months Union. end of the threat to Putin's reign, or like Mikhail Gorbachev before him, was it just the beginning? |
| 1:27.0 | Last week, the armed rebellion sweeping towards Moscow ended as suddenly and unexpectedly as it had begun. |
| 1:41.0 | Before escaping to Belarus, Fgeny Prigosian, the leader of the Wagner group, tried to downplay what had happened, describing the armed mutiny he'd been leading as more of a peaceful protest. |
| 1:56.3 | He said the group's members had started what he called a march for justice. |
| 2:01.4 | We showed no aggression, he said, but added we were hit by missiles and |
| 2:05.4 | helicopters. He said his supporters turned around to avoid spilling Russian soldiers |
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