Peter Pomerantsev – Imperial ambition, autocracy and compulsion to humiliate are the driving forces of war in Russia

GUEST: Peter Pomerantsev – journalist, author and television producer
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After Putin was imposed on the Russians in 2000 as their new president, they also chose to elect him. His blunt, crude language, threats and calls for violence attracted people and continued to do so for 20 years. The Russian obsession with strong leaders and superficial social and political stability has backfired spectacularly. Once he came to power, we shouldn't be surprised that he stayed and refused to move on. Putin's model of authoritarian leadership always leads to tragedy and bloodshed – to humiliation and violence. So we come to February 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 ties to Ukraine?
07:13 Everything you earn and own could be taken in an instant
10:14 How the Russian state regained control of the media
13:39 A deep trauma that goes back to the Mongol Horde
18:36 Aggressive victim – parallels with Nazi Germany
23:03 Was Putin really driving a taxi, as he claims?
23:48 TV formats that worked with Russian audiences and failed
30:46 The retrospective nature of much Russian literature
34:40 Small discussion on colonial issues within the Russian mainstream
37:23 Contradictory propaganda and compartmentalization of the Russian mind
41:28 Propaganda has moved from stirring up passivity to demanding action
43:57 Putin is weakening physically and politically – what next?
44:20 The West must learn from Ukrainian resilience and experience
49:03 Ukraine reminded us that democracy is fragile and not inevitable
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SPEAKER:
Peter Pomerantsev is a Soviet-born British journalist, author and television 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 on 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 proliferation of anti-Soviet literature. They then 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)
It's Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality (2019)
Ukraine in stories and narratives: essays by Ukrainian intellectuals (Ukrainian Voices)
by Volodymyr Yermolenko with a foreword by Peter Pomerantsev (2020)
City of the Black Earth: a year in the heart of Russia (Charlotte Hobson and Peter Pomerantsev 2017)
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