War in Ukraine: Episode 147

The Eastern Border

Kristaps Andrejsons

Cold War, Politics, Soviet, Society & Culture, History, Ussr, News

4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Conflicts errupt in Russia among radical pro-war groups - Ramzan Kadyrov's Chechen thugs are in an open conflict with Girkin's buddies, the Russian ultranationalists. Normally, that would be the news - as it is big and important. This week, however, we learned that a FGS defector - an officer of Russian Secret Service - has defected and escaped to the west. And he's given an interview.

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1:17.9	Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the eastern border. I'd like to tell you that this episode
1:24.2	was one of the very hardest for me to make physically.
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