Protesting against Putin

The History Hour

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Starting in late 2011, tens of thousands of protestors took to the streets to try to stop what they saw as a power grab by Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The movement was not successful, but analysts say it worried the Russian leader so much that he launched a crackdown on dissent that has lasted to this day. We hear from Russian rock journalist, Artemy Troitsky, who composed a song that became an anthem of what was sometimes called the "Snow Revolution".

Also, the launch of the first women's newspaper in Afghanistan, how black stuntmen demanded work from the big studios in Hollywood, and the dramatic story of the women who escaped a violent cult based in South London.

Photo: An anti-Putin rally in Moscow in December 2011. Credit: Getty Images

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the History Hour Podcast from the BBC with me Max Pearson and the team behind
0:05.0	witness history on the World Service, first-hand stories from the past that have shaped our world.
0:11.0	This week Afghanistan's first newspaper specifically for women, a moment of hope after the fall of the Taliban in 2002.
0:18.0	Life was completely different because people was carrying hope and every one of us we believe that the new chapters
0:26.4	thought the great hope for a brighter future in Afghanistan.
0:30.0	Also a remarkable escape from a cult in South London, and the black stuntmen who fought for equality in Hollywood.
0:37.0	Why are they going to put this damn black makeup on this white guy's face to ride the horse or do this or do a motorcycle and do a car.
0:43.0	We were really offending.
0:45.0	Highly insulted by the fact that they had all these white guys painting down.
0:50.0	That's all coming up later in the podcast,
0:52.0	but we're going to begin with a bit more historical context to the current crisis and conflict in Ukraine.
0:58.0	The Russian invasion was prosecuted under the direct orders of Vladimir Putin.
1:02.0	Such a drastic decision could only be taken by a leader completely confident in his own authority,
1:07.0	a leader whose subordinates are enthralled to him and whose people have seen dissent crushed.
1:13.0	But it wasn't always like that.
1:15.0	A decade ago, Moscow witnessed some of the biggest demonstrations
1:18.0	that there have been against Vladimir Putin.
1:20.0	Tens of thousands of people protested against what they believed were rigged elections.
1:25.0	Rachel Naylor has been speaking to someone who is at the forefront of the movement,
1:29.0	which is sometimes referred to as the Snow Revolution.
1:31.0	And Rachel is with us now Rachel.
1:33.0	Hi Max yeah I spoke to the Russian rock journalist and author
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