I'm so pleased to see Anna Nemzer on Silicon Curtain. Her podcast on Anna Politkovskaya was outstanding and very moving. It reminded me that whatever we think of Russian society, there are still Russians who are extraordinarily good and heroic.

SC is the most impressive in-depth interview series on any topic I have ever seen and particularly on Russia/Ukraine/World topics.

Anna is an incredible inspiration to me as an Australian , who needs to know these details of Russian politics and life. Depressing but inspiring. Thank you

I was living under Russia occupation... never again!!!!!!

a brilliant interview. Anna bridges over so pure, human, clear.. like a fresh mountain like river. thanks for what you do, giving light to this voices. wish you 100 mio followers ❤

Excellent

In the past I thought russia would be democratic, not anymore. My county has lost it's bearing, but sanity is slowing coming back. Russia is a global menace period.

Wonderful conversation!

Always very informative. Keep up the good work.

Thank you, Johnathan, for your presentation!

Thanks, Jonathan. Straight questions.

He is not happy unless everyone is under his thumb.

Thanks for all your work! Yet another great guest!

I love it! Truthful!❤

Best interviews! Thanks Jon

Anna thank you for doing this .Im in Canada and have had this Attitude since I lost friends and family to Fox News since late 80s -Mid 2000ths. Haven't listened yet but wanted to thank -You 🇨🇦☮️👐👣

An honor for a Russian to be among the guests of this podcast.

Very good

Thanks Jonathan. Great, great choice for an interview. I have been watching Anna's outstanding 'Total Recall' series on the TV Rain channel. They are excellent. Anna is an insightful commentator and superb speaker. I know it is easy to say this with hindsight, but a big mistake by Russia (and Yeltsin) was to allow creatures of the Soviet security apparatus to hold positions of power after the fall of Communism. They might have been the most competent technically, but they would never allow a pluralistic or democratic system to emerge. Putin obsesses about 'unity' - as in one people, one empire, one leader. Anna makes a good observation that the cynical criminal Putin regime is based on lack of logic - any idea or policy is only for the purpose of keeping and expanding power, so can be changed or ditched at any time for that purpose. If truth does not exist for the Kremlin, then any lie is feasible and permissible. So, it is impossible to trust the Putin regime or reach any true modus vivendi. And of course the seeds of conspiracy theories (about responsibility for the war lying outside Russia) fall on earth that has been well fertilised in Russia for generations by prejudice and Marxism Leninism.

She is a delight, I hope you have introduced Anna from Russia to Anna from Ukraine. I know that they will both get much from a friendship. When Anna says she has no hope I completely understand. It is so frustrating to not be able to help. I feel so much angst. I want to reach out to her and console her. I don't know where she is, but she would be in danger if in Russia. In a couple of years, when a Bradly might arrive in Red Square on it's own steam, Anna must work with Anna to re-invent Russia in the image of young Russian's dreams. "Russia" will be managed from Kiev, (which pre-dates Moscow as a regional centre by hundreds of years), for 100 years. Let's face it, Putin has killed Russia again, and the Russian people need a break. What a nightmare it is. But, (now talking to Anna from Russia), there is always hope, yes, this will end. YOU must survive, keep your head down. Come to live in London if you are not already here. Or go to Ukraine, but I would do this later when the war is won. No thoughts of suicide. No, you are an absolute gem, a diamond. The world will be lost without people like you. What we now still call Russia will be lost without you. If you die, or were murdered, then I would be lost. I agree with a post I briefly read in these comments; you are an inspiration. Absolutely. You are a light in the darkness. Fink is ok, (joking here) but you are deeper, more integrated emotionally and intellectually, and, if you are Russian; consider yourself Russian, and if you also want to reform Russia, then you must join forces with Anna ("from Ukraine") as together, you are a light that allows me to see Putin's passing, and the waking of damaged, zombified Russians who will recognise their own dreams in your writings, and who will need your love and understanding. So. You must survive. Random bombs must be avoided, and you must NOT become a target for this narcissistic regime. [Narcissists are damaged individuals who must, one way or another, give themselves a feeling of worthiness by their "achievements", in the broadest sense of the word. Why? Because they do not feel a sense of self-worth by their own thoughts and feelings. This natural self-valuing function is the very thing that is broken.]

A very interesting and very educated interview. thanks to both of you !

good work

Thank you. See you on "Anna from Ukraine" channel. Keep up the good work.

Thank you, Jonathan, for inviting Ana Nemzer to this interesting conversation. 🇺🇦 Перемоги і миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦

Thank you, Jonathan and Anna. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

Excelent

Somewhere in the Politics Aristotle remarks that if you want to be a really effective tyrant you need a really good imaginary threat, and if it’s on the other side of the world so much the better. Nobody will be able to tell you’re lying. So true.

Thanks!

Great stuff Jonathan.

Thanks for hosting this illuminative duscussion. One of the things Anna raises is the challenge of maintaining hope in times these times. Perhaps she could take some comfort in words attributed to that great Russian storyteller, Anton Chekhov, who is quoted as working with the motto "without hope and without despair"(*) Keep plugging away Anna ✊ (* quote extracted from, "Raymond Carver - Dreams Are What You Wake Up From", Electric Cereal, KZfaq, 39:00min)

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what a lovely woman ..

Anna Nemzer is a journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker studying the historical memory of wars in the post-Soviet space. She is a scholar at Bard College, and a co-founder of the Russian Independent Media Archive (RIMA) dedicated to the preservation of all Russian independent media as the most important evidence of the era. She is now a presenter on TV Dozhd (aka TV-Rain - formerly the only independent TV channel in Russia, now working in exile),

I remember we couldn’t get russian television on our channels anymore, and it was explained that it was because something was off. I did not really get it, before the big attack on Ukraine. I am looking forward to more in depth explanation.

Always happy to comment on this excellent channel and every pro Ukraine vlog. 🇺🇦💛💙Slava Ukraini.

Great interview !

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People like Anna could transform Russia for the better, if only they were allowed to flourish in such an otherwise toxic regime .. what is Chinese media like ,we don't hear much,do they have an equivalent of tv-rain? thanks SC.

I really like Anna, she's very insightful and interesting to listen to.

You do a great job and always ask incredible questions

Thank you Jonathan and Anna ..from Italy ..

Have her on more often

Great questions and amazing guests, welcome all to Silicon Curtain!! 😀xxx

U know ive admired ur work. This lady is nice and pretty good communicator Jon: You are a leader. A warrior. A man. Please understand how we admired your debate with the duplicates the supplicants on your recent debate. Very tough. Recall Hitch: unafraid. Unafraid in the face of horror. … very few like you. Appreciate. Revisit the narrators and push back just like u did. Stay strong.

"Diaspora", like "mass migration" is a simple idea the manifestation of which is the movement of a population geographically, most likely to other states. The cultural reasons for diaspora can be complex, and just as is gloriously explained by the two cultural guardians above. Guardian angels. Thank you Jonathan for this wonderfully enlightening video.

FSB=KGB=FSB

Good listening to two people familiar with Russian media go into some depth on the topic. Anna's commitment to continue despite a lack of hope is inspiring. May she see a better Russia emerge.

💛💙💜💙💛 listening uninterrupted 😁 🇺🇦 🌏 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

Great Interview!! I remember listening to a lecture by Prof Tim Snyder from Oct 28, 2022, at Boston University about Genocide in Ukraine: "Genocide is underway. If we don't see it, the failure is ours." (on his substack) That was when truth smacks you in a way that is undeniable and you must face it. The ideology, the logic, the terrorism, the Russian playbook that was underway and the genocidal strategy was suddenly REAL. Every action Putin has done (either before or since) - I can see it. No amount of media manipulation changes (for me) that pure EVIL.

V interesting 👍

She is heaps cool.

she's a true thinker.

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And everybody knew it yet nobody suggested we should not engage/do business with that guy.

Finding hope is certainly difficult even as an onlooker from way “down under”, but it can stay solid when separating hope from all expectations no matter which direction the war goes. Then it becomes a decision, perhaps even a declaration like “ I stand for hope”. 🤔

Long live the West! SLAVA UKRAINE! from Italy ❤❤

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i click like is my comment thanks for your work

She managed not to answer any of your questions. Or by not doing it, in a way she did.

It's shameful that silicon curtain, Johnathan MS Pierce,Greg Terry,The Professor and Operator Starsky know the most information and yet get the least coverage.

Putin Coronation 🤣

Brilliant of you to have Anna Nemzer on! 🙏 Even tho SC has become a strident propaganda channel, I'm still grateful for the gems you include.

"Professor Dugin". Nemzer is talking about the professor of Moscow Lomonosov University Dugin, the follower of Ilyin - Hitler Nazi ideologi. This alone means that that MGU, which Nemzer has attended herself, it's not really a university, but the outhouse in the shape of one of the stones skyscrapers

🇦🇺💙💛✌ 🇺🇦 Despite YT's instant removal of so many pro Ukraianian comments, demonetizing or outright removal of so many channels, the world is still supporting Ukraine.

Rain on, Anna! The world is a wonderful place!

Rotating enemies a la 1984..

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I've intended wondered if Putin; during his East German posting knew or worked with Merkel. As we learnt all East Germans had a close association or extended influence with the Stanzi did Putin have some leverage with her which affected her policies towards Russia

what a beautiful beautiful Russan lady ..

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What is the Azov idiology?

The Black Swan of the Russian Revolution by PR Gregory · 2017 · - A black swan is a metaphor for an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is understood only with the benefit of hindsight.

к станку ее, и пусть въеживает.

Is it just me who sees a lot of similarity with trump?

Only one real opposition in russia is - RDK and Russian legion ... They fighting for Ukraine. This madam is nobody 😂😂😂 don't play russian game you will loose

at the begining of this war I listened to a BBCradio4 documentry on putins early life . embarrased as a taxi driver, humilited. and now seeks vengence on whatever is easiest. turns out, not so easy. but very dangerous and Europe needs to react more strongly.

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Is the "Sasha Meets Russia" KZfaq account Russian propaganda?

@14 minutes -> incoherency

Thank you, Jonathan, for your efforts, but today's guest wasn't persuasive. She vocalized her (kind of) stream of consciousness. It seems she constantly struggled translating from Russian. She also related a bunch of obvious ideas and well-known stories. Sorry, but at my point this interview was a failure.

Can she answer a question without going down her own rabbit hole?

Такую интеллигентную женщину можно слушать часами при условии, что её показывают в полный рост в купальном костюме

What this mumbling is about?

More ukie/nato cope 😂

The parallels between Oceania 1984 and Russia 2024 are disturbing. I would invite everyone to listen to the 1984 dramatized audio book by Steve Parker. He does a great job.

Thanks!

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