Sir Antony Beevor
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Jun
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A large contribution, of course, now coming from President Trump in that particular way.
And this is one of the great reasons for uncertainty, fear, and...
shall we say, even potential chaos in many areas.
But it really does come very much more from that particular moment of the Russian Civil War, which again was an echo even of the time of troubles.
Yes, absolutely right.
I agree.
But I mean, what one also needs, I think, to remember is how clever Putin was
in bringing together the two sides, if you like, from the Russian Civil War.
He was the one who brought back various white generals to be reburied.
The way is that you won't see a hammer and sickle rally anywhere around the Kremlin anymore.
It's all the double-headed eagle.
And ditto on the Palace on the Black Sea.
So he also, his criticism of Lenin and so forth, he may say that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical tragedy, but his mentality is much closer to that of the Russian Empire.
Yes, as we know, as we know, certainly from sort of the ideologues influencing him.
I mean, the whole of that particular essay was actually written by Medinsky, the one published before the invasion of Ukraine.
And I mean, Medinsky, well, frankly, he's a fool in many ways.
I mean, there was the extraordinary attempt to get Kazakhstan back in by making that film of General Panfilov and his 28 men or whatever.
which was then proved to have been a complete propaganda invention.
And Medinsky even said, anybody who does this, even if it's not true, they are below slime.
It was a wonderful, it was unbelievably comic.
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