Alex Gibney's 2019 documentary Citizen K, available on Prime Video, is a fascinating history of Putin's increasingly repressive Russia.
Russia is not a normal country. That's the obvious and inescapable conclusion one comes to after considering everything from the country's rigged elections to its army of hackers and propagandists, its jailed political prisoners, its strongman president-for-life, and the bloody invasion that it launched in 2022 against a much smaller neighbor.
The oligarchs at the time, who didn't trust that a pure democratic election would produce a president aligned with their interests, got behind a nobody candidate they thought they could control: A former KGB man named Vladimir Putin. Citizen K is many things, one of which is the story of how the oligarchs' choice came back to bite them.
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