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fouoifjefoijvnioviow t1_jcc279q wrote
Reply to comment by TheNewestHaven in The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of Politics of Fear - (2004) BBC, part 1 of 3 compares the rise of neoconservative movement and the radical Islamist movement [00:59:11] by Damascinos
He called Putin an anonymous bureaucrat picked by oligarchs, and completely omitted he was in fact KGB
fouoifjefoijvnioviow t1_jcbnbzl wrote
Reply to comment by 33hamsters in The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of Politics of Fear - (2004) BBC, part 1 of 3 compares the rise of neoconservative movement and the radical Islamist movement [00:59:11] by Damascinos
His last one on USSR seemed pro-Putin to me
fouoifjefoijvnioviow t1_jcc95yz wrote
Reply to comment by TheNewestHaven in The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of Politics of Fear - (2004) BBC, part 1 of 3 compares the rise of neoconservative movement and the radical Islamist movement [00:59:11] by Damascinos
I mean it's quite the omission, and the KGB ended just around that time. It's just a too-simple narrative that Putin is not some well-trenched apparatchik, but just another poor nobody stuck in the role.