The Russian Mindset and Where it Comes From - Historian Sir Antony Beevor
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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster
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🗓️ 6 June 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 1:01.6 | There is a very important debate of why Russia is the way that it is, why it is so different if you like to Western Europe. Some will say that it goes back to the Mongol invasions |
| 1:06.5 | of the 13th century. Russia has to be 200 years behind Western Europe. To protect Russian tradition, |
| 1:14.5 | to protect Russian culture, this time lag was essential. People in the West look at their attitude |
| 1:20.3 | to casualties and are quite frankly horrified. Though there's always been this case whereby |
| 1:25.4 | the attitude of meet the cannon. |
| 1:29.3 | I mean the whole notion, the Russian steam roller, etc., the idea that simply out of sheer |
| 1:33.9 | weight of numbers, they can crush any enemy. |
| 1:37.3 | But the real problem is that they have often treated their own people as badly as the enemy. |
| 1:43.3 | This is a form of inhumanity, which, obviously in the West, we find incomprehensible. |
| 1:53.0 | Samane Beaver, welcome back to Trigonometry. |
| 1:55.0 | Very back to be with you. |
| 1:56.0 | Oh, it's great to have you back. |
| 1:58.0 | I was just saying to you before we started, our first conversation with you, |
| 2:01.6 | I think it did over a million downloads, if you include video and audio, about the Russian Revolution. |
| 2:06.6 | Today, you've obviously got a book about Rasputin out, which we'll touch on, but what we really |
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