How the Kremlin's spy networks shaped Russia’s history

The Bunker

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🗓️ 16 June 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The Kremlin’s spy networks are well documented – but what’s less known is how they shaped Russian history. In centering the rise and fall of Communism in Russia’s history, are we missing a crucial historical axis – the intelligence services which have long kept an eye on citizens across Russia and further afield. Yuri Felshtinsky, author of From Red Terror To Terrorist State: Russia’s Intelligence Services and Their Fight For World Domination from Felix Dzerzhinsky to Vladimir Putin, joins Alex Andreou in The Bunker to discuss whether the West fails to tell the full story of modern Russia. We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/bunker for £100 sponsored credit. www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Alex Andreou. Producer: Liam Tait. Assistant Producer: Adam Wright. Audio editor: Jade Bailey. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved
0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
0:13.0	I loved going to college.
0:14.0	It's good you can retrain and do something.
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0:42.0	when the know-nothing's get control, I should
0:46.2	prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving
0:50.4	liberty to Russia for instance where despotism can be taken pure and without
0:56.1	the base alloy of hypocrisy.
0:59.4	So wrote Abraham Lincoln over a century and a half ago, but the quote could have come from today.
1:06.0	History doesn't repeat itself, the saying goes, but it often rhymes.
1:12.0	My guess today is very much of the view that the reason the West finds
1:15.8	Russia so inscrutable and unpredictable is because it fundamentally misunderstands its history.
1:23.8	In a stunning new book, from Red Terror to Terrorist State,
1:28.0	co-authored with a former KGB operative at Defector,
1:32.0	he offers an alternative narrative arc.
1:34.3	Welcome to the bunker to historian and author Yuri Phil Stinsky.
1:38.6	Thank you for having me.
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