ENGLISH starts after our intro!  We took a while to release this one; we interviewed Natylie back in 2022, shortly before the Russia-Ukraine war broke out. Vanessa didn't feel super comfortable with the timing, so it got held back for a long time. But the discussion is evergreen and valuable, so here it is! Understanding the historical view from Moscow & learning from its recent past and its brutal neoliberal trauma. Our guest is Natylie Baldwin, the author of The View from Moscow: Understanding Russia and U.S.-Russia Relations, and an analyst specializing in US-Russia relations. From her bio: In October of 2015, Natylie traveled to 6 cities in the Russian Federation and has written several articles based on her conversations and interviews with a cross-section of Russians.  She traveled to Moscow and St. Petersburg in May of 2017 to view the Victory Day celebrations and to do research on the Russian Revolution and how Russians commemorated the centennial. Her writing has appeared in various publications including The Grayzone, Consortium News, Antiwar.com, Covert Action Magazine, RT, OpEd News, The Globe Post, The New York Journal of Books, and Dissident Voice. We were very grateful for her time and expertise, and we hope you enjoy the interview and analysis. Follow us @Contraelite1 on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook  Contraelite podcast on different platforms: Apple: https://tinyurl.com/ContraeliteOnApple Anchor: https://anchor.fm/contraelite Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/ContraeliteOnSpotify Google: https://tinyurl.com/ContraeliteOnGoogle YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/ContraeliteOnYouTube Our breaks music is "Draco" by Yung Kartz (https://www.yungkartzbeats.com/) Related reading and more information about our guest & topic: WHY HAVE RUSSIANS REJECTED THE WEST’S ‘VALUES?’ - by Natylie Baldwin https://natyliesb.medium.com/why-have-russians-rejected-the-wests-values-97bd7e51b767 Book: THE VIEW FROM MOSCOW Understanding Russia & U.S.-Russia Relations by Natylie Baldwin https://store.bookbaby.com/bookshop/book/index.aspx?bookURL=The-View-from-Moscow&b=p_fr-ve-bl Natylie's blog - Natylie's Place: Understanding Russia https://natyliesbaldwin.com/ RT Chief Margarita Simonyan “Why we don’t respect the West anymore” by Matfey Shaheen https://theduran.com/rt-chief-margarita-simonyan-why-we-dont-respect-the-west-anymore/ Clips: The Real Russian Cosmonaut (Armageddon, 1999) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgHoMEhqDe4 BBC HARDTalk w/Ygor Gaidar - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVacmUR1CUY The Shock Doctrine: The rise of disaster capitalism (Jonas Cuaron, Naomi Klein - 2007) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL3XGZ5rreE