Putin’s People: How the KGB took back Russia

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In Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West, investigative journalist and Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times Catherine Belton tells a dark tale of how Vladimir Putin rose to power and consolidated his rule. Belton traces how an alliance between Putin, the KGB, and organized crime came together in St. Petersburg and expanded its influence to the Kremlin, across Russia, and eventually reaching Western markets and institutions. Belton’s extensive research reveals how Russia’s president and his allies co-opted national industries to transform a collection of wealthy entrepreneurs into a kleptocracy aided by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), seizing control of the economy to enrich only themselves under the veneer of a renewed Russian nationalism. This compelling and contemporary account of Putin’s Russia paints a grim picture of a country where freedom, private enterprise, and liberalism are forced to take a back seat to cronyism capitalism.
Catherine Belton, author of Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West, discusses her new book alongside Clark Gascoigne, interim executive director of the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition, and Anders Åslund, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council, moderates the discussion.
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@richardcollins586
@richardcollins586 3 жыл бұрын
Nearly at the end of part 1 of the book. I picked it up as the Economist gave it good review. Finding the book very interesting and it flows really well.
@patriciahoefdraad
@patriciahoefdraad 3 жыл бұрын
I truly want to read this book.
@user-hi9qc5sq6s
@user-hi9qc5sq6s 2 жыл бұрын
Can I have translation this book?!
@tthex6484
@tthex6484 3 жыл бұрын
this book doesn't seem to be linked in anyway to the title.
@patrick7381
@patrick7381 3 жыл бұрын
Well I just read it, and that is exactly what it is about. Putin was KGB in Dresden in the years leading to the Soviet collapse. His duty was to help smuggle in western technology and then ultimately to siphon out Soviet assets for cash at 5x rate of the planned economic prices in USSR, all in collaboration with organized crime who did the leg work. The KGB bled the country dry and burned the evidence, holding billions abroad then used it to buy up state assets later. Putin basically was a sleeper cell among liberal capitalists under St. Petersburg's mayor, then driven by KGB influence to a meteoric rise to power under false pretenses. He and KGB/organized crime power structure took over, took control of the oligarchs and now he owns half the economy and a whole second dark money economy meant for undermining western interests.
@australianpatriot
@australianpatriot Жыл бұрын
You must be an idiot mate
@manatee2500
@manatee2500 2 жыл бұрын
where is David Satter?
@marky1974
@marky1974 3 ай бұрын
I wonder was this book published in Russia?? Its great read..Strongman is very good too..
@cretaceousedits6723
@cretaceousedits6723 3 жыл бұрын
W I D E
@user-zg9np5bb6e
@user-zg9np5bb6e 3 жыл бұрын
You know, sort of; uh-uh-uh, you know, sort of; uh-uh-uh, you know, sort of...
@alidehghan6561
@alidehghan6561 2 жыл бұрын
یکی از فامیل پ میمره
4 ай бұрын
Zelensky was on the list of the PANAMA papers and suddenly his name is no longer mentioned.
@KostiaBazrov
@KostiaBazrov 2 жыл бұрын
путлер
@deniss5930
@deniss5930 2 жыл бұрын
Уйло😀
@KostiaBazrov
@KostiaBazrov 2 жыл бұрын
@@deniss5930 , осторожно, КГБ не спит🐁🐁🐁🐁🐁🐁🐁🦊
@MarkushaX
@MarkushaX 3 жыл бұрын
I love those Russia experts, who do not speak russian language and never lived in Russia. ))))))
4 ай бұрын
You are so right. They are biaised plus they have an agenda to defend.
@marky1974
@marky1974 3 ай бұрын
I don't live in North Korea or Belarus but im pretty sure they are dictatorships..same applys to the little Russian dictator..
@George-pl7dw
@George-pl7dw 3 жыл бұрын
Could they discuss how the CIA took over the USA in the 1980s ? And is there any connection between the Atlantic Council and surviving nazis after WW2 ?
@karelnovak8818
@karelnovak8818 3 жыл бұрын
They took over when they killed JFK, Nixon was the last one who tried to resist, that is why they released dirt on him. They have something like Watergate on everyone in high position, not only in the USA.
@nikolaikrustev1159
@nikolaikrustev1159 3 жыл бұрын
It''d be very sad if such ''whataboutery' comes from a westerner instead of a putin-bot. Read the book and cure some of your naivety.
@karelnovak8818
@karelnovak8818 3 жыл бұрын
@@nikolaikrustev1159 what you call "whatabuatery" is a legit argument, pointing out western hypocrisy.
@nikolaikrustev1159
@nikolaikrustev1159 3 жыл бұрын
@@karelnovak8818 The hypocrisy of the Russian ruling cast is on a a completely different level - they squirrel their stolen loot and educate their children in the West all the while spewing anti-western propaganda to the hoi polloi. And if CIA had 'taken over' in a similar way as George implies - President Turnip would have never ever been elected. Honestly, if you are not by chance a Russian 'internet-researcher' employed to debate the party line - you are being really, really naive and have obviously not red this exceptionally well researched book.
@karelnovak8818
@karelnovak8818 3 жыл бұрын
@@nikolaikrustev1159 LOL, Trump is totally controlled by them, he plays a good cop against deep state bad cop, while he is deep state himself. Why did Comey help him to get elected?
@nicholassudov2299
@nicholassudov2299 3 жыл бұрын
Interesting. But simplified a bit. "Evil KGB oppresses freedom-loving Russians" cliché.
@nikolaikrustev1159
@nikolaikrustev1159 3 жыл бұрын
I am halfway through the book - it is a riveting read but I am yet to encounter a 'freedom loving Russians' cliche. Maybe you finished it all already and can point me to the right paragraph? As for KGB - call it evil or lovely if you wish but it has done a 'Game of Thrones' level sh*t..
@nicholassudov2299
@nicholassudov2299 3 жыл бұрын
@@nikolaikrustev1159 I referred to that wide-spread old Cold War of 1940s-1980s conviction in the West that "evil Communists and KGB oppress poor Russian people who aspire for freedom". It was so wide-spread that even those Soviets PW specialists who produced sometime in early 1990s the fake "Allen Dulles' Plan" ascribed to Mr. Dulles totally idiotic words that "we [that is, American imperialists ]will see the gradual demise of the most freedom-loving people in the world", i.e. Soviets/Russians. But the developments in Russia since 1991 have clearly served as an ample illustration to the book "Escape from Freedom" (1941) by Erich Fromm. In fact I also suspect that very many, maybe most people don't give a damn about freedom as long as they are well-fed, entertained and rarely hurt by the "elite". That depends on a nation's history and mentality of course.
@nicholassudov2299
@nicholassudov2299 3 жыл бұрын
No, I have not read this particular book, only watched the clip. I suppose the author is negative towards today's Russian "elite". Fine. But I am overfed with revelations of that sort. The matter is that replacing these people with those next in line solves nothing. To produce cream one needs milk, not water.
@nicholassudov2299
@nicholassudov2299 3 жыл бұрын
@bobothecreepyclown Probably, I do not hold the absolute truth. Let them be.
@patrick7381
@patrick7381 3 жыл бұрын
@@nicholassudov2299 You miss the point completely because you wanted to predetermine the argument in line with a counter argument that you had ready on hand. What you are saying isn't close to the content of the book that you didn't take the time to read a page of.
@joeboyd8702
@joeboyd8702 2 жыл бұрын
I just read the book. Alot of it could of been copied and pasted from other books. Much of the content is based on accounts from anonymous sources and hearsay. Also some of it is blatant fiction. It is as if the publisher ordered her to spice it up a bit..
@copperdog
@copperdog 2 жыл бұрын
Ok Putin
@johndenby6192
@johndenby6192 8 ай бұрын
Still bashing Ɓrexit influenced by russian money. It wasn't. Back in 1975 Brussels put huge money into remain in.
@user-hi9qc5sq6s
@user-hi9qc5sq6s 2 жыл бұрын
Can I have translation this book?!
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