Okay, we are live with Alexander Mercuris in London and we are joined today first time on the Duran.

Very happy to have with us Dr. Marcus Papadopoulos.

Dr. Papadopoulos Marcus, how are you doing today?

Welcome to the Duran. It is a pleasure to have you with us on this live stream.

And before we get started, tell us about your book. And I also have a link to your ex account as well in the description box down below where people can follow you.

Well, first of all, I'd like to say how delighted I am to be joining both of you today and how very much I'm looking forward to our discussion.

Regarding my two books, the first one, Arise Rasea, the return of Russia to world politics,

was published in January of 2021.

And essentially, it is an appraisal of contemporary Russian foreign policy,

though I do provide history to the Russian Empire, or a brief history, to the Russian Empire, to the Soviet Union,

making the argument that the Soviet Union did not collapse,

rather the Soviet Union was dissolved,

and dissolved by three treacherous Soviet politicians,

Boris Yeltsin of the Russian Soviet Federalist Socialist Republic,

and of course Kravchuk in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic,

and Shushkavich in the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Secondly, my more recent book, Whitehall in Stalin's Russia,

British Assessments of the Red Army, 1934 to 1945,

was published in November of 2023.

And this book focuses on two points. Firstly, how British assessments of the prowess of the

Soviet armed forces from 1934 to 1945 played a major role in British strategic planning in the aforementioned period and also how ingrained

Russophobia in Whitehall, principally amongst the military officers and intelligence officers,

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