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Today, we embark on a journey into the history of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991—a dissolution marking the end of the Cold War era and giving rise to geopolitical shifts as well as the emergence of new nations.
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Jun 2025
#244 The Process of Adolf Eichmann
📖 Episode Transcripts in Link Below ⬇️ Today, we’ll dive into the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the key architects of the Holocaust, and how his capture and prosecution became a turning point in the world’s confrontation with Nazi crimes. https://patreon.com/HistoryinSlowGerma ... Show More
3m 36s
Mar 2022
159. Young Putin, the KGB and the Soviet Union
[Episode 1 of 4]
Welcome to our new four part series on the latter years of the Soviet Union, its fall, Putin's early life and his subsequent rise to power.
Today's episode focuses on Brezhnev, Putin's formative years, his early KGB career and Gorbachev's descent into chaos.
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35m 28s
Mar 2022
The Rest Is History: Young Putin, the KGB and the Soviet Union
In our most recent episode, Alastair mentioned our sister podcast, The Rest Is History, and its recent mini-series on the Soviet Union, its fall, Putin's early life and his subsequent rise to power.
Here's the first episode of the series on Brezhnev, Putin's formative years, his ... Show More
33m 9s
Mar 2022
161. Yeltsin, Economic Chaos and President Putin
[Episode 3 of 4]
'You certainly won't understand what ordinary Russians see in Vladimir Putin if you don't understand what happened in the 1990s. A time of utter, utter collapse.'
In part three of our Soviet Union, Russia and Putin series, Tom and Dominic drill down into the d ... Show More
37m 33s