09/23/2026
Today I’m speaking to David Satter, journalist, and historian with unique insights into how the repression of the past, is having terrible consequences for present day Russia. David has written extensively about Russia and the Soviet Union, especially the decline and fall of the USSR and rise of post-Soviet Russia. David Satter became the first American journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War in December 2013. From 1976 to 1982 David was the Moscow correspondent of the Financial Times, and then became a special correspondent on Soviet affairs for The Wall Street Journal. He is author of several books that are essential reading to help understand the origins of the current crisis, including the brilliantly named ———-
- BOOKS:
- Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State (2003)
- It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway (2011)
- The Less You Know, The Better You Sleep (2016)
- Never Speak to Strangers and other writing from Russia and the Soviet Union (2020)
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