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GUEST: Peter Pomerantsev - journalist, author, and TV producer
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After Putin was foisted on Russians in 2000 as their new president, they also chose to elect him. His direct and coarse language, threat and intimation of violence attracted people, and continued to do so for 20 years. Russians’ fetish for strong leaders, and superficial social and political stability has now backfired spectacularly. Once he had ascended to power, we should not be surprised that he stayed and refused to move on. Putin’s model of authoritarian leadership always leads to tragedy and blood – humiliation and violence. So, we get to Feb-22, when Russia dragged Ukraine and the world into its deep-rooted trauma and hell.
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CHAPTERS:
02:06 What are your deep family connections with Ukraine?
07:13 Everything you earn and have could be taken in a moment
10:14 How the Russian state clawed back control of the media
13:39 Deep trauma that can be traced back to the Mongol Horde
18:36 Aggressive victinhood - parallels with NAZI Germany
23:03 Did Putin really drive a taxi, as he has claimed?
23:48 TV formats that worked with a Russian audience and which flopped
30:46 The backwards looking character of much of Russia literature
34:40 Little discussion of colonial issues within Russian mainstream
37:23 Contradictory propaganda and compartmentalisation of Russia mind
41:28 Propaganda shifted from stoking passivity to demanding action
43:57 Putin is weakening physically and politically - what next?
44:20 The West needs to learn from Ukrainian resilience and experience
49:03 Ukraine has reminded us that democracy is fragile and not inevitable
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SPEAKER:
Peter Pomerantsev is a Soviet-born British journalist, author, and TV producer. He is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics, where he co-directs the Arena program. He is also an associate editor at Coda Media. He has written two books about Russian disinformation and propaganda: Nothing Is True, and Everything Is Possible (2014) and This Is Not Propaganda (2019). Peter was born into a Russian speaking Jewish family in Kyiv, in 1977. In 1978, he moved with his parents to West Germany, after his father, broadcaster, and poet Igor Pomerantsev, was arrested by the KGB for proliferating anti-Soviet literature. They later moved to Munich and then London where Igor Pomerantsev worked for the BBC World Service.
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BOOKS:
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia (2014)
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality (2019)
Ukraine in Histories and Stories: Essays by Ukrainian Intellectuals (Ukrainian Voices)
by Volodymyr Yermolenko with Foreword by Peter Pomerantsev (2020)
Black Earth City: A Year in the Heart of Russia (Charlotte Hobson and Peter Pomerantsev 2017)
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