Iron Curtain call: Mikhail Gorbachev
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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The leader who oversaw the Soviet Union’s collapse had only intended to reform it. But the propaganda and repression he abhorred were what held it together. A speed bump lies ahead for electric vehicles: manufacturing and mining capacity may not keep up with battery demand. And visiting a vast landscape sculpture in Nevada’s desert ahead of this week’s public opening.
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| 0:59.1 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:02.5 | Today, from London, I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:05.6 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:12.8 | The transition to electric vehicles is coming along at a good clip, but there's a speed |
| 1:18.2 | bump ahead. The rising demand for batteries may outstrip the capacity to manufacture them, |
| 1:23.5 | or even the capacity to mine the materials they require. And a full 50 years ago, an American artist named Michael Heiser started working on City, |
| 1:35.3 | a vast sculpture carved into the landscape of the Nevada desert. |
| 1:39.3 | At last, it's done. Our culture correspondent pays a visit ahead of the public opening this week. |
| 1:45.0 | But first... |
| 1:59.0 | Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died in a hospital in Moscow, aged 91. |
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