- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Hunger
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, hunger strike is almost a ritual in a Russian prison colony. It actually has been going back to Soviet times. It's a way of protesting.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
To effectively create the image of an enemy you have to show first of all that the enemy is extremely dangerous, but on the other hand less than human.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
In war you're either a collaborator or you're a resistor. I mean you don't get to be neutral.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized - I've been an opposition journalist in Russia for a long time. And I've often considered how real risks are and how much of a risk I can take.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I looked at Putin and was terrified from the very beginning. That makes me look very prescient because he actually turned out to be exactly the monster that I thought he was.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, Trump's significant first moves have been twofold. To marginalize the media, and to start dismantling the federal government.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do a very good impersonation of an American - I went to high school here - but I've spent most of my life in Russia.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most difficult and, in some ways, the most rewarding thing I've ever been through was emigrating as a teenager.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is so impossible to predict how much influence what you write will have, and what sorts of anxieties and imaginaries it will tap into.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about the Russian secret police and the Soviet secret police is that one never leaves the secret police. Once a KGB man, always a KGB man.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems that probably Putin's father maintained some connection to the secret police throughout his life. One sign of that is that they had a telephone, and people didn't have telephones in the Soviet Union in the 1950s.
- Buildings
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- Nov 07, 2020
St. Petersburg, under the czars, had been a grand city. It was a planned city, and it had - there were all these Parisian architects who had been brought in to build the apartment buildings in the center of town.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
There aren't a lot of things that are extraordinary about Putin, but his greed is truly extraordinary.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020