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What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam Curtis.
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2022-10-13
S1E7 — Part Seven - 1995 to 1999
Suddenly the western bankers leave. Oligarchs take control and search for a new president to be their puppet. They choose Putin. Russians turn against “the curse of democracy".
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Self (archive footage)
Boris Yeltsin
Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Putin
Self (archive footage)
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