Worth Repeating: The Whole World is Watching!
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
06/30/22
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In August, 1968 American anti-war protesters chanted, “The Whole World is Watching.” What might have been hyperbole then, is fact now: the whole world really is watching Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.
Except for audiences in Russia itself, that is, where there is virtually no reporting of what is happening in Ukraine that doesn’t mesh with the government’s narrative about what it calls its “special operation” to crush Ukrainian “Nazism” in the pursuit of “Christian values.”
**Surreal, perhaps. But, hyper real, in fact. ** Among the many **thousands of Russians reportedly fleeing their country **are scores of Russia’s best journalists who have (understandably) given up the good fight. However, at least one has not: Yevgenia Albats, our guest on this episode of New Thinking for a New World.
When the government stopped her from publishing and ended her radio show, she found ways to keep talking to her Russian audiences. And when I asked her to talk to us, she immediately agreed.
At great personal peril, Yevgenia tells it like it is—to the Russians who depend on her and to us, who need her.
Published the first time on March 24, 2022.
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