Oliver Stone - The Putin Interviews

It was kind of ugly in a way, but in a good way—gritty. Very impressed and I remembered when I was here during the Brezhnev era, when they used to show all the old black and white Soviet films on TV, I saw the same kind of movie where the Soviets were taking on the Nazis again. And I made the connection. This is 34 years later, and I say the Russian people have a certain quality of courage which manifests itself time and again and they never forget. And by watching these old movies and remembering the tradition, remembering history, you go a long way towards keeping that sovereignty.

VP:Yes. That is very important. But no less important than this rigid framework of tradition is to be willing to accept new things, novelties, and to advance.

OS:Like cyber warfare! I’m not going to bug you anymore. I’ve got my hands full, 25–30 hours to cut. No more questions! Promise. A handshake across the countries. I wish I wish I wish. You did a great job, you did a good job.

VP:[a warm handshake] If they’re going to beat you for this, you can come back here to Russia and we’ll help heal you.

OS:We’ll see. I’m proud of the film. You got to tell your side of the story and that’s all I can do.

VP:I don’t know if anyone is going to be interested in that.

OS:That’s also possible. Goodnight, Mr. Putin.

*Note: items in boldare topics discussed at length

Abkhazia, 52, 185

Afghanistan, 3, 32, 33, 35-38, 143, 174, 175, 179

Al Qaeda, 33, 34, 36

al-Assad, Bashar, 2, 132, 140, 146, 160, 161, 234, 239

al-Nusra front, 140

Aleppo, 233, 234

Anti-Ballistic Missile System (ABM), 41-44, 51, 72, 77, 80, 98, 115, 117, 118, 177, 179, 187, 194, 195, 232,

Assange, Julian, 214

Azerbaijan, 179

Baker, James, 40

Barr, Aaron, 114

Berezovsky, Boris, 16, 17, 19, 200

Berlin Wall, 31

Biden, Joseph, 223

Big Brother Law, 226

Bin Laden, Osama, 33, 36-37, 93, 94

Bolshevik Revolution, 7, 95, 118, 148

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 25-26

Buk (air defense system of the Ukrainian armed forces), 70

Botnet attack, 222

Brezhnev, era of, 246

Bush, George W., 52, 115, 180

Caliphate, 131, 152

Casey, Bill, 33

Castro, Fidel, 21, 22, 199, 203

Caucasus, 33, 52, 111, 173, 179, 234, 245

Central Bank of Russia, 110, 180

Chavez, Cesar, 199, 205

Chechen wars, 15, 17, 19, 37,

Chechnya, 33, 37, 109, 172, 173, 174

Cheney, Richard, 39, 148

China, 89, 90, 91, 92, 144, 206, 229

Churchill, Winston, 25, 46

Clinton, Hillary, 82, 114

Clinton, William, 39, 40, 41, 42, 156, 209

Cold War, 1, 2, 25, 33, 40, 46, 47, 72, 78, 81, 83, 156, 183, 221

Communism, 2, 47

Communist Party, 95, 223

Crimea, 65, 69, 76, 77, 191, 195, 196, 197, 240

Cromwell, Oliver, 25

Cuba Missile Crisis, 23, 81, 239

Cypress, 202

Dacha, 7, 87

Dagestan, 38, 112, 172

Damascus, 235, 238

de Gaulle, Charles, 120

Deep State, 210

Doctors Without Borders

Donbass, 66-67, 70, 71, 81, 82, 192, 197

Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 210

East German Stasi

Eastern bloc, 156

el-Sisi, Abdel Fattah, 131

Electoral College, 48, 122, 210, 211, 215, 219, 225, 237

Erdogan, Recep Tayyip, 134, 135, 138, 235, 236

European Union (EU), 63, 64, 92, 118, 192

Federal Security Bureau, 13

Federal Security Service, 13

Fracking, 150-151

Free Trade Area of the CIS, 63

French socialist Utopian, 112

French War, 8

FSB, 13, 184

Fuchs, Klaus, 45

G20, 134, 136, 217, 237

Gaddafi, Muammar, 32

Gaidar, Yegor, 29

Georgia, 52, 156, 184, 185, 188

Georgian situation, 51

Georgian war, 174

Gergiev, Valery

Gershman, Paul, 71

Glazyev, Sergey, 148

Golden Fleece, 178

Google, 228

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 1, 2, 10, 12, 14, 30, 31, 40, 55, 163, 164, 188, 244

Guantanamo Bay, 123

Gülen, 236

Hannibal, Barca, 213

Hersh, Sy, 93

Hiroshima, Japan, 82, 224

Hitler, Adolf, 26, 82, 114

Hussein, Saddam, 31, 46, 150

Iceberg Theory, 22

Imperialism, 48

Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICMBs), 78, 117

International Committee of Armaments Control, 117

International Court of Justice, 69, 196

International Monetary Fund (IMF), 110, 111, 112

Iraq War,30-32, 35, 38, 39, 45, 46, 51, 69, 148, 149

ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, 31, 36, 46, 132, 135, 136, 140, 141-143

Islamic fundamentalism, 33, 34

Islamic terrorism, 36, 46

Israel, 67, 133, 135, 143, 149, 152, 159, 218

Judo, philosophy of, 7, 23, 24, 27, 85, 130, 131, 166-167

Kadyrov, Ramzan, 172, 173,

Kayagin, Alexander, 50

Kennedy, John F. 23, 80, 81, 82,

assassination papers, 183

Kerry, John, 75, 79, 136, 145, 161, 219

KGB, 1, 8, 9, 11, 18, 54, 55, 56, 169, 183

Khodorkovsky, Mikhail, 19

Khrushchev, Nikita, 14, 23, 80, 81

Kiev, 65, 66, 67, 68, 74, 82, 158, 160, 189, 191, 197

Kirill (Patriarch of Moscow), or Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev, 87

Kosovo

crisis, 69

independence of, 69, 196

the bombing of Belgrade, 178

Krasnodar, 77

Kremlin, 88, 163, 183, 187, 213, 225

Krylov, Ivan, 159

Kuan Yew, Lee, 206

Kubrick, Stanley, 81, 195

Kuchma, Leonid, 72, 189

Kunduz, Afghanistan, 136

Kurds (Kurdish peoples), 134

Kuwait, Invasion of, 30-31

Kyoto Protocol, 100

Lagarde, Christine (Madame), 110

Lavrov, Sergey, 75

LeMay, Curtis, 82

Leningrad, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 87

Leontief, Wassily, 27

LGBT Community, 97

Libya, 37, 131, 160, 234

Maidan massacre, 73, 74

Mao Tse Tung, 203

Marcus Porcius Cato (the Elder), 113

McCain, John, 71, 212

McNamara, Robert, 141

Mecca, 160

Medea, 160

Medvedev, Dmitry, 21, 184, 186, 203

Military Industrial Security Complex, 118, 210

Minsk Agreements, 66, 67, 74, 158, 197

Morgan, J.P., 199

Nagasaki, Japan, 82, 224

National Endowment for Democracy, 71

National Security Agency (NSA), 55, 171, 212, 215, 220, 227

National Security Council (NSC), 103, 218

Neocons, 56, 146, 183

Nevsky Pyatchok, 6

Nichaiev, Andrei, 29

Nikolaevich, Mikheil 188

Non-governmental organization (NGO), 71, 120, 219

North Sea, 98, 99

Novorossiysk, 77, 193

Nuland, Victoria, 71, 240

Obama, Barack, 50-54, 74, 75, 117, 123, 138, 146, 161, 188-189, 209, 211, 217, 219, 223, 225, 237, 238, 246

nuclear deal in Iran, 114

Oblest, Moscow, 7

October Socialist Revolution, 52

Odessa, 73, 160

Odysseus, 178

Oligarchs, 3, 16, 17, 19, 24, 73, 162, 199-201

Onassis, Aristotle, 199

Orange Revolution, 174

Organization of Islamic Conference, 218

Ossetia, 52, 184, 185, 187, 188

Pakistan, 93-94

Palestine, 67

Palmyra, 158, 161

Panama Papers, 202

Perestroika , 9

Permanent Court of Arbitration, 229

Persian Gulf, 145

Poland, 44, 74, 115, 194, 223

Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 223

Poroshenko, Petro, 64, 66, 67, 159

Privatization, 17, 19, 20, 24, 28, 29, 63

Putin, Vladimir

on war, 78

on religion, 86

on family, 88

on China, 89

on Bin Laden, 93

on power, 94

on Democracy and Freedom, 95

on the Arctic, 98