E13: Propaganda
Interview with Konstantin Samoilov
We welcome back a very special guest: Konstantin from the Inside Russia YouTube channel. Moving past regular news cycles, we sit down for a deep, philosophical, and deeply personal conversation about the global information shift and the decaying trust in our media institutions.
Konstantin shares powerful personal insights into what it’s like to grow up inside a state-controlled information system. He opens up about the exact moment he realized as a child, that the narrative he was being fed didn’t match reality, and how events like the response to the Chernobyl disaster cemented that understanding.
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