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Apr 7, 2022Liked by John Ganz

This is a good take, Putin as a modern General Secretary forever trying to stay one step ahead of the USSR's "Ethnicities problem." Not only was the collapse of the CPSU the defining event of his political life, but he personally spent the final years (1988ish-1991?) on the task of suppressing ethnonationlist sentiments in central asia.

10/10

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