Putin's Rise to Power
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Catherine Belton joined me on the pod to discuss the remarkable story of Vladimir Putin's rise to power. After working from 2007-2013 as the Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times, Catherine's career has offered an exclusive insight into workings of Putin's Kremlin. Her new book 'Putin's People' is packed with interviews from key inside players, uncovering fascinating details about how Putin subverted Russia’s economy and legal system and extended the Kremlin's reach into the United States and Europe. It's a story of billions of dollars being siphoned out of state enterprises, murky networks of operatives and a suppression of independent voice.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, |
| 0:00.6 | folks, Dan Snow here. |
| 0:01.6 | I am throwing a party to celebrate 10 years of Dan Snow's history hit. |
| 0:06.1 | I'd love for you to be there. |
| 0:07.5 | Join me for a very special live recording of the podcast in London, |
| 0:10.4 | in England on the 12th of September to celebrate the 10 years. |
| 0:14.1 | You can find out more about it and get tickets with the link in the show notes. |
| 0:17.5 | Look forward to seeing you there. |
| 0:24.0 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to Dansos History. We've got a great podcast for you. We got the brilliant |
| 0:27.3 | Catherine Belton. She's a writer. She's journalist. She is an expert, total expert in Russia |
| 0:33.2 | and Vladimir Putin. She goes right back to the start of his career when in 1985 he was a young |
| 0:37.9 | KJB officer. He was hanging out in Dresden. She identifies him that he was a senior liaison |
| 0:43.9 | officer with the Stasi. He was doing all sorts of hellish things then. And his career really |
| 0:48.7 | has gone from bad to worse and now he's a globally significant figure. So that's great news. |
| 0:52.9 | So this was a brilliant podcast, a bit of recent history, but not just Putin. Looking at what happened to Russia after the |
| 0:58.4 | collapse of the Soviet Union. What do the people around Putin, the man himself, what do they |
| 1:02.8 | want? Are the gangsters motivated by money? Is there a kind of nationalist element to their |
| 1:07.1 | plans, their vision for Russia? It's not easy listening this, but it's important. |
| 1:12.1 | Thank you very much, the brilliant Catherine Belton for producing such a comprehensive |
| 1:15.9 | first draft of history. It's remarkable. If you want to go back a bit further, we've got |
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