Masha Gessen, Putin Whisperer

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Masha Gessen returns to The Gist, this time to talk about her latest work, The Future Is History. Gessen uses the book to examine the ways in which post-Soviet Russia failed to process the traumas of totalitarianism. In failing to reckon with its past, did Russia doom itself to a bleak future? In the Spiel, the dearth of details in the Trump administration's tax plan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:04.3	We don't have a dog.
0:05.4	Okay, okay.
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0:18.9	participating restaurant-only.
0:20.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:23.2	It's Friday, October 6th, 2017 from Slate.
0:31.2	It's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:33.6	I was in the west side of town today.
0:35.7	I looked around, there was a Jedi, then there was a Jawah,
0:39.5	then there was a Bugs Bunny-type thing.
0:41.4	I think it was actually, who's the female bunny from that movie?
0:45.6	An L.A.P. Bunny?
0:46.8	Maybe Bab's Bunny.
0:47.9	Anyway, she was around.
0:49.1	And I said to myself, what the hell is going on here?
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