Disclaimer, this episode features strong language throughout.

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Week by week, mission by mission. You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest

espionage operations. You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world.

What do they know? What are their skills? And what would you do in their position?

This is True Spies. Under Carver Darkness, one of the Marines came over, pushed the button,

to let up this big metal grate in the back of the garage of the embassy, underground garage,

and I just bolted it. Just bolted out, passes I could.

Episode 49. New Russia. New rules.

Nearly 30 years ago, Russian tanks surrounded the White House.

Alternate history? Not quite. Alternate White House.

It was the old Supreme Soviet building and then it became the Parliamentary Building

and it's called the White House because it's white. The House of the Government of the Russian

Federation or the Russian White House is the seat of Parliament in Moscow. It works in tandem

with the President based in the Kremlin to decide national policy. In the autumn of 1993,

it was the focal point of the worst street violence since the October Revolution,

which had brought the Bolsheviks to power 76 years previously.

I think I'll total 150 people are so died, hundreds were wounded.

But how did things get so bad? Well, two years after the fall of the Soviet Union,

the country was still reeling from seismic cultural, political and economic changes.

The establishment didn't know what was coming next. The people certainly didn't know what was coming

next. There was this air of dark anticipation. Since the collapse of the USSR,

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