3. Baggage
Episode 3 of our podcast begins in Georgia, where foreshocks of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine were felt a long time ago
In one sense, the war did not really begin in 2022. It did not even begin in Ukraine. It started the first time Vladimir Putin invaded one of Russia’s neighbours and got away with it. That was 15 years ago, in Georgia. And in the same place Joseph Stalin, author of the Soviet empire’s darkest chapter, was born.
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