Aleksander Kwaśniewski - about Putin's obsession, Russian culture, dissolution of Russia and China

Aleksander Kwaśniewski;, President of Poland (1995-2005). We talked with him about the war in Ukraine, the politics of Vladimir Putin and Russian culture
Russian version of interview (русская версия): • Александр Квасьневский...
Hi, I'm Mikhail Zygar, Russian journalist, writer, filmmaker, founding editor-in-chief of the Russian independent news TV-channel, Dozhd (2010 - 2015). And this is my KZbin-channel. My new show "After Tomorrow" is live every Wednesday at 19:30 Berlin-time on this KZbin channel and on the OstWest TV.
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[@eliseleonard3477]

I love this channel. Fascinating guests and very thoughtful, open ended questions that show excellent preparation for each different guest.

[@hannesforster1845]

Excellent guest & questions. Thank you!

[@micumatrix]

Good Interview. The sad part is how different we experience politicians that stepped down from their powers in the sense that many suddenly show their other opinions which would have made them more complete politicians. Guess without the political pressures we would have better politicians?!

[@rumataastorskiy5734]

Thank you!

[@morokom]

да ну, что? такой качественный контент, и так мало подписчиков

[@pernatkingleb]

не понимаю, почему я тут первый комент делаю..

[@zyghom]

in your intro you say you talk to the greatest people of the world. and then we see Kwasniewski. what is wrong with you? please define "the greatest people"

[@pernatkingleb]

а! бекоз итц ин инглишь. гат ит

[@Someherbaltea]

The interviewee got so defensive when Mikhail has asked him about comparing Poland and Russia! Major turn-off.

[@MrOdrzut]

Well he's right. Poland was democratically electing kings in 15th century already. Democracy was the default for centuries with small exceptions in Polish history. In Russian history democracy was in total about 15 years out of a few hundred :) In 90s in Poland nobody even considered that Wałęsa could refuse to give up his power after he lost elections, it wasn't a concern.

[@jamesgarner327]

Poland wasn't a democracy is was an oligarchy, only aristocrats could vote.

[@MrOdrzut]

@@jamesgarner327 Well, it was more of a democracy by percent of population that could vote than early Great Brittain and similar to the percentage of people with voting rights in 18th century USA :) About 10% of Poland in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth time was nobility, half of them were male so they had voting rights.

[@jamesgarner327]

@@MrOdrzut Ok, that's called a minoritarian gouvernement, not a democracy.

[@MrOdrzut]

@@jamesgarner327 that was as much democracy as in any country back then