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and Hello and welcome to Angry Planet. I am Jason Fields. And I'm Matthew Gault.

Dictatorships of the last century had some famous youth groups. Hitler had his youth, Lenin had his young pioneers,

and Mussolini had his opera Nazinale Balila, I apologize for my Italian pronunciation.

Such groups once attracted huge followings, but they've largely fallen out of favor in the West.

Unfortunately, like so much else with the Irredentist Vladimir Putin, he's bringing it back.

To help us understand this new youth movement and what it means for the future, we have the perfect guest. Ian Garner is a historian and

analyst of Russian culture and war propaganda. He's got a new book that's coming out this spring,

which is Z-generation, into the heart of Russia's fascist youth,

and he's also a professor at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Well, thank you for having me.

Let be good to just sort of start at the absolute beginning, if you don't mind.

Can you tell us a little bit,

what's the name of Putin's group,

what's the point of this group,

and when did he start it?

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