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EPISODE · Mar 28, 2022 · 16 MIN

Making Vladimir Putin: From KGB to Ukraine invasion

from The Week in Philly from KYW Newsradio · host Audacy

The world's eyes are on Ukraine and the atrocities happening there as the Russian military continues its invasion. We wanted to talk about the man who put this war in motion. Why is Vladimir Putin doing this? What was his path from the KGB to authoritarian leader of Russia and now probable war criminal? Was this turn to warmonger always inevitable, or did something happen along the way? Dr. Mark Schrad, Associate Professor of Political Science at Villanova University joins the podcast to talk about Vladimir Putin's rise to power and how we got here today. 

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The world's eyes are on Ukraine and the atrocities happening there as the Russian military continues its invasion. We wanted to talk about the man who put this war in motion. Why is Vladimir Putin doing this? What was his path from the KGB to authoritarian leader of Russia and now probable war criminal? Was this turn to warmonger always inevitable, or did something happen along the way? Dr. Mark Schrad, Associate Professor of Political Science at Villanova University joins the podcast to talk about Vladimir Putin's rise to power and how we got here today.

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The world's eyes are on Ukraine and the atrocities happening there as the Russian military continues its invasion. We wanted to talk about the man who put this war in motion. Why is Vladimir Putin doing this? What was his path from the KGB to...

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