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This is my attempt to make another special episode, because talking just about Stalin all the time gets sort of boring.

But it seems that this will turn into a mini-series of sorts until I get this whole thing over with, because otherwise we will get to Dan Carlin

lengths of episodes, to be honest.

And this episode itself will have quite a large introduction, and I'm sorry about that, but

I promise you that this will tie back into everything by the end.

I promise.

So, I recently read an article by one Andres Olsund, who is an elder member of the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C.

And this article was published here in Latvia in our biggest and most trustworthy news site,

Delfti Elvé, and that inspired me to do this episode and start writing about this subject.

The article was about how Putin's power is actually weaker than it might seem.

Well, in general, that's nothing new to my listeners, as we have explored his regime's

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