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Post-Soviet Chaos and How Putin Rose From the Wreckage
from Graveyard Shift At A Bread Warehouse · #87
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26sTim briefly argues that the economic collapse and power vacuum after the Soviet Union's fall, with generals selling off nuclear material, set the stage for Putin's rise.
- 57:19Post-Soviet oligarchs got rich selling surplus tanks and cruise missiles from the wreckage of the Soviet arsenal.