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9 Oct 2024 Conversations with Tyler Tom Tugendhat on Modernizing the UK and Political Reform
“I’ve read a fair amount of Russian history, but I’m afraid I just simply can’t explain it, but it consistently goes wrong.”
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- Tom Tugendhat
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- 9 Oct 2024
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…If we think about Russia, for a long time, maybe forever, Russia has not been close to a free country. If you had to try to explain, in its most fundamental and conceptual terms as possible, why that is true, how do you understand Russian history? Why has it gone so badly so many times? I’ve read a fair amount of Russian history, but I’m afraid I just simply can’t explain it, but it consistently goes wrong. I ask myself whether it’s to do with the scale of the country, whether it’s to do with the fact that the levels of education or the levels of connection between urban and rural areas is so great. I don’t know, but your wife left the Soviet Union, when was it, 20, 30 years ago? 1992. Yes.…
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