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EPISODE · Oct 23, 2025 · 54 MIN

The political drama before the Dismissal, and communing with Stalin's ghost

from Late Night Live — Full program podcast · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Today, we look backwards. Gough Whitlam's dismissal didn't come out of nowhere; 1974 and 1975 were years of intense political turmoil and scandal. Paul Kelly was there, in his late-20s, as The Australian newspaper's chief political correspondent, and has become one of the chief chroniclers of the dynamics that led to The Dismissal. Political ghosts haunt Russia, as well. But there's a very specific belief, held by some Russian occultists, that the ghost of Stalin is haunting their country and can be contacted through the internet.

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