The Putin Files: David Hoffman

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I grew up in the Eastern block and the way this gentleman describes life of that time is so spot on.

Martigore

Imagine going bankrupt and having your house taken from you because you get sick! Unaffordable medical bills are the number one cause of bankruptcy in the USA.

jimmycricket

This is brilliant. This series of videos could well form the foundation of a graduate course in contemporary Russian issues. Deepest respect to the producers of Frontline both for doing these interviews and sharing them on YouTube. Thank you.

curtisgrindahl

5 years later... In the meantime all the truth came out and we can only ask ourselves did he tell all these lies because he was paid or because he was just a naive ignorant? Or maybe something else? Thanks for keeping online these videos so that we can refresh our memories of what narratives were circulating at that time.

yoxcyou

Bush senior was the CIA director, was he ever measured against that?

hernan

I am a Russian American, I was 12 and part of Communist youth movement when the Soviet Union fell apart. Then there was chaos and I grew up in it. Most of what Americans hear about USSR is propaganda and vice versa (Russian propaganda is strong too), somewhere in the middle there is the truth. What this man is saying is fairly accurate, based on my recollection of living through the fall of the USSR. During the early 90s there was so much murder and so much crime in Russia, it was hell.

MushroomGravy

HE also lacks a good understanding of what the CIA does in other countries to Thwart true democracies from developing. PBS should think again about this interview.

jeanninesilkey

I am a kid of the late Cold War 70’s till the fall of the Berlin Wall. Spent my childhood in Europe in the 80’s. My Russian ex girlfriend and other friends ascribe a good deal of the fall of the Soviet Union came from bootleg VHS tapes of movies, tv shows and cassette tapes. The exposure to western specifically US culture and consumerism & prosperity are what drove the populace to turn its back on Soviet Style Communism.

Tsayoga

It's so refreshing to listen to someone who really knows what he's talking about. It's encouraging to hear him say "I don't know" sometimes, and then explain a possibility as such, not as a fact.

rafaelliteral

Thank you Frontline for this excellent and most enlightening series. I would say that David Hoffman's take was the most concise and I really appreciate his insight.

lvkd

Thank you Frontline PBS and Washington Post journalist David Hoffman, most enlightening! I've also enjoyed the "Putin File" episodes as well. Keep up the great work!

brendadrew

I wish Eisenhower could see where we ended up.

twatts

1:12:20 wasn’t intended to tear Russia 🇷🇺 apart… but we have it in our doctrine and millitary strategy to bulkanize Russia into many little rival states.

bigbrainb-ryan