Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine

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Russia transformed itself into an era of the free market economy after decades of tight governmental control on the economy, entrepreneurship and finance in the country. If he bought the biggest Russian oil company for peanuts as nobody would bid against him with a proxy and a shelf company way back when, it might well be true. The book looks back at the 20 years, critical incidents and in a scary, but objective manner, offers a commentary on the man and his working. The narration and the effects are really nice and creates the sense of anticipation and intrigue about the outcomes.

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On New Year's Eve 1999, a young Vladimir Putin appeared on Russian TV screens - awkward, self-conscious.But they admit that his popularity is limited outside his core constituency of younger Russians and those who don’t support Putin. There is the rant about Estonia to the British ambassador or former French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s magnificent record of Putin’s “violent diatribe” over Georgia and its leader, who should be “hung by his balls”.

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In June last year, with fellow Brit Shaun Pinner and Moroccan national Brahim Saaudun, he was one of three POWs sentenced to death by firing squad. Instead, he charts the inexorable march away from the genuine more liberal aspirations of Putin’s early days to the harsh autocratic isolated tsar of recent years, from a Russia culturally and mentally in Putin’s words “an inalienable part of Europe” to the present rupture, which will surely separate it for at least a generation. The chapters are mixed with some really good narration and enactment, and music, that it felt really lively and in the moment.It also is a chilling reminder, that to reach and retain that level of power, you don't necessarily need to be a force-of-nature or genius kind of a person. If one is looking for an in-depth analysis and historical perspective , this is not the book to listen to. For all his recent whitewashing of Stalinism and Soviet history, in the early 1990s Putin understood the 1917 revolution had taken the country to an economic and political dead end.

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A simplistic pop-historical look at how Vladimir Putin rose to power and kept hold of it for two decades. Audible has done a great job curating listens that give insight in to history and geopolitical context. Refreshingly, Short, in this meticulous biography of a man portrayed elsewhere as a 21st-century monster, refuses to moralise, opting instead to lay out how Putin’s recent actions can be seen as the consequence of the 30 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the midst of one of the darkest acts of aggression in modern history - Russia's invasion of Ukraine - this book shines a light on Putin's rule and poses urgent questions about how the world must respond.In this one, wach of the chapters explores an aspect of Putin's power, his ascension, his corruption of it, his responses and actions during critical moments such as the Belsan school siege, the annexation of Crimea and his interference with Ukraine's entry in to the EU. Sweeney has covered wars and chaos in one hundred countries and been undercover to a number of tyrannies, including Chechnya, North Korea and Zimbabwe. The Beslan hostage-taking incident by Chechen separatists led to the death of almost 300 children primarily due to the inept handling of the situation by the Russian Government.