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Russia Has a Bad News Problem

If Ukraine breaks through, how will Putin know?

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Luke Johnson
Jul 31, 2023
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Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev addressing the U.S.S.R. 18 days after the Chernobyl Disaster. (Public Domain.)

Russian leaders have a habit of ignoring bad news. In June 1941, Stalin refused to believ…

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