Behind the Iron Curtain

 

If you’re looking for some further background on the conflict in Ukraine, including the orchestrated implosion of the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1990s, the chaos of the 1990s under Boris Yeltsin, and the rise of Putin and the oligarchs, check out the 4-part podcast below:

 

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0auxUb9EcE6Ot0SP4y2pko?si=X8eEt8FQRH-GAk2h9gSXdg

 

https://play.acast.com/s/the-rest-is-history-podcast

 

There are some disturbing parallels drawn between Russia in the 1990s and Germany during the Weimar Republic, which should serve as a cautionary tale given the immediate risk of Russia’s second sovereign default in the post-Soviet era (the first being in 1998).

 

 

 

 

 

 

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