Conversations with My Father - USSR, Communism and Modern Russia
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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster
4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2025
⏱️ 121 minutes
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| 0:29.9 | You're about to watch a conversation with one of the most intelligent, knowledgeable and |
| 0:34.8 | fascinating people I know, my father. He's had a remarkable life too. |
| 0:39.9 | By his mid-20s, he was making vaccines and then working at a Soviet nuclear facility. |
| 0:44.7 | By age 30, he was a successful businessman who was recruited into the Russian government. |
| 0:49.6 | The department in which he was a junior minister was tasked specifically with rebuilding the Soviet |
| 0:54.0 | Union. By age 35, he was living abroad minister was tasked specifically with rebuilding the Soviet Union. |
| 0:54.7 | By age 35, he was living abroad and on the run under a cloud of false charges |
| 0:59.2 | stemming from political disagreements over the direction of Russia. |
| 1:03.2 | Today, in his early 60s, exonerated of all the false allegations, |
| 1:07.1 | he spends his time thinking and writing about history, geopolitics, the Battle of |
| 1:12.0 | Civilizations, Mysticism, and a lot more. My dad and I have different opinions on many things, |
| 1:17.7 | but we've always been able to talk about anything, including our differences. At points, |
| 1:22.4 | the conversation was difficult, as we see the world from different perspectives, especially when |
| 1:27.3 | it comes to Vladimir Putin, |
| 1:29.0 | the war in Ukraine, and Russian foreign policy. But I think that itself will be illuminating. |
| 1:34.9 | Across the three interviews in total, we talked about him growing up in the Soviet Union, |
| 1:40.4 | why communism is a religion, how the USSR fell apart, why America today reminds him of communist |
| 1:47.7 | days in the Soviet Union. His views of COVID and COVID vaccines as someone he used to make |
| 1:52.5 | flu vaccines, the crazy 90s in Russia that he lived through, why Russians, according to him, won't |
| 1:58.9 | trust the West for at least two generations. |
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