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Dictatorship: It's Easier Than You Think!

Gaslit Nation

Gaslit Nation

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.74.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to our special live taping of Gaslit Nation! Thank you to everyone who joined us and asked such profound and moving questions in the live Q&A. It was a replenishing joy to hear from you. Thank you so much to the great Kasia Babis, a renowned illustrator and activist in Poland who created the visual world of the Gaslit Nation graphic novel Dictatorship: It's Easier Than You Think! available now on pre-order, and out everywhere starting June 13. If you haven't met the book's rascally narrator yet, Judge Lackey, see him at work by watching the book's fun animated trailer.
 
Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman also joined the live-taping to discuss whether Putin's days are numbered (they are!), who will replace him (someone worse?), and whether the Freedom of Russia Legion liberating Russian towns and villages inside Russia from Putin's dictatorship is real (it appears so!), and what it all means. Will Putin use nukes, especially as Ukraine's spring offensive gets underway? What should the world's response be to Putin going nuclear?
 
We're having another live taping Wednesday May 24 at 2pm EST with David Pepper on his new book Saving Democracy: A User's Manual for Every American.  You can get access to that by subscribing to the show at the Truth-teller level or higher -- details will be sent out to those subscribers on how to join the live taping the morning of the event. Sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit 
 
Our bonus episode this week will be the Q&A of our live taping. We'll be back with an all new Q&A answering questions submitted by our listeners at the Democracy Defender level and higher. To submit your questions or to get access to the bonus episodes, and our full back catalog of bonus episodes, be sure to subscribe to the show on Patreon to keep us going! Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!
 
Show Notes:
 
Ilya Ponomarev clip: https://twitter.com/GwarWorin/status/1660748853111410688
 
Freedom of Russia Legion Twitter https://twitter.com/legion_svoboda

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0:00.0

Look, at the end of the day, this war would not end in Ukraine.

0:04.0

This war can end only in Moscow.

0:06.0

This war can end only when Putin's regime is replaced.

0:10.0

And obviously it would not be done by Ukrainians or by NATO forces, British forces, whatever.

0:16.0

It will be done by Russians.

0:18.0

Somebody needs to do it.

0:19.0

We are very thankful for Ukrainians who are helping us in terms of

0:22.9

training our forces and providing us with the necessary equipment. But it's our job. It's not fair

0:29.5

if Ukrainians would spill their blood for our freedom.

0:43.2

Welcome to Gaslit Nation.

0:49.7

I am your host, Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and the writer-producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide, famine, and Ukraine.

0:53.8

And our opening clip was Ilya Ponomerov, a leader of the Free Russia Legion speaking to

0:59.4

LBC London.

1:00.8

We're going to go into what the Free Russia Legion is, whether it's real or not, and what it

1:06.9

means for the potentially, you know, inevitable downfall of Putin.

1:12.9

And we are doing a special fly by the seat of your pants

1:16.7

taping of Gaslit Nation with members of our Patreon community

1:21.2

who are here in the audience.

1:23.4

We're gonna go answer some questions from the folks

1:26.3

that are here later on the show with our two extraordinary guests, two superwomen, who are fighting the battle of human rights against fascism in the world.

1:36.8

We have Kasha Babas, who's based in Poland.

1:40.2

She is an activist and the illustrator of the Gaslit Nation graphic novel, Dictatorship.

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