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Serhii Plokhy

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1125 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

one editor of the newspaper, and eventually he kills Bandera. He does that with the new weapon, a spray pistol, that eventually makes it into the Bond novel, The Man with the Golden Gun. And that whole episode is a little bit reshaped, but it is not in the film, but it is in the novel itself. And Dan later has a change of mind under the influence of his German fiancΓ©e and then wife.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

one editor of the newspaper, and eventually he kills Bandera. He does that with the new weapon, a spray pistol, that eventually makes it into the Bond novel, The Man with the Golden Gun. And that whole episode is a little bit reshaped, but it is not in the film, but it is in the novel itself. And Dan later has a change of mind under the influence of his German fiancΓ©e and then wife.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

They decide to escape to the West. While they're doing that, they discover that their apartment was bugged, and probably the KGB knows all of that. A long story short, his son dies in Berlin. The KGB doesn't allow him to go there, but his wife has a nervous breakdown, so they allow him to go there to just calm her so that there would be no scandal.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

They decide to escape to the West. While they're doing that, they discover that their apartment was bugged, and probably the KGB knows all of that. A long story short, his son dies in Berlin. The KGB doesn't allow him to go there, but his wife has a nervous breakdown, so they allow him to go there to just calm her so that there would be no scandal.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

They decide to escape to the West. While they're doing that, they discover that their apartment was bugged, and probably the KGB knows all of that. A long story short, his son dies in Berlin. The KGB doesn't allow him to go there, but his wife has a nervous breakdown, so they allow him to go there to just calm her so that there would be no scandal.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

And two of them, one day before their son's burial, because after that they would be sent to Moscow, they jumped the ship and go to West Berlin. two hours before the Berlin Wall was being built. So if they would stay for the funeral, probably the KGB would not let them go. But also if they would stay, the border would be there.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

And two of them, one day before their son's burial, because after that they would be sent to Moscow, they jumped the ship and go to West Berlin. two hours before the Berlin Wall was being built. So if they would stay for the funeral, probably the KGB would not let them go. But also if they would stay, the border would be there.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

And two of them, one day before their son's burial, because after that they would be sent to Moscow, they jumped the ship and go to West Berlin. two hours before the Berlin Wall was being built. So if they would stay for the funeral, probably the KGB would not let them go. But also if they would stay, the border would be there.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

And he goes to the American intelligence and says, okay, that's who I am, and that's what I did. And they look at him and they say, I don't trust you. We don't know who you are. You have documents in five names. You say you killed Bandera. Oh, we have a different information. He was poisoned and probably by someone in his close circle. A spray pistol? Did you reach too much Ian Fleming?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

And he goes to the American intelligence and says, okay, that's who I am, and that's what I did. And they look at him and they say, I don't trust you. We don't know who you are. You have documents in five names. You say you killed Bandera. Oh, we have a different information. He was poisoned and probably by someone in his close circle. A spray pistol? Did you reach too much Ian Fleming?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

And he goes to the American intelligence and says, okay, that's who I am, and that's what I did. And they look at him and they say, I don't trust you. We don't know who you are. You have documents in five names. You say you killed Bandera. Oh, we have a different information. He was poisoned and probably by someone in his close circle. A spray pistol? Did you reach too much Ian Fleming?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

Where does this come from? He insists. They say, okay, you insist. If you committed all those crimes, we're giving you to the German police, and German police will be investigating you. And then the trial comes, and if he says, if he takes back his testimony, The whole case against him collapses. He can go free.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

Where does this come from? He insists. They say, okay, you insist. If you committed all those crimes, we're giving you to the German police, and German police will be investigating you. And then the trial comes, and if he says, if he takes back his testimony, The whole case against him collapses. He can go free.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

Where does this come from? He insists. They say, okay, you insist. If you committed all those crimes, we're giving you to the German police, and German police will be investigating you. And then the trial comes, and if he says, if he takes back his testimony, The whole case against him collapses. He can go free.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

But he knows that if he goes free, he is a target of his colleagues from the same department. So his task at the trial is to prove that he is guilty, that he has did that. And then he disappears.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

But he knows that if he goes free, he is a target of his colleagues from the same department. So his task at the trial is to prove that he is guilty, that he has did that. And then he disappears.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

But he knows that if he goes free, he is a target of his colleagues from the same department. So his task at the trial is to prove that he is guilty, that he has did that. And then he disappears.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

Nobody knows where he goes, and there are all sorts of cover stories, and I was lucky to interview a commander, former chief of the South African police, who confirmed to me that Stashinsky was in South Africa.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

Nobody knows where he goes, and there are all sorts of cover stories, and I was lucky to interview a commander, former chief of the South African police, who confirmed to me that Stashinsky was in South Africa.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

Nobody knows where he goes, and there are all sorts of cover stories, and I was lucky to interview a commander, former chief of the South African police, who confirmed to me that Stashinsky was in South Africa.