The Man With Over 1,000 Years: Miguel Krassnoff and the Disappeared of Chile
In Chile, one man carries more than a thousand years of prison sentences for kidnapping, torture, and forced disappearance. His name is Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko—known as “El Ruso.”
As a key operative in Pinochet’s secret police, the DINA, Krassnoff helped run the interrogation centers that swallowed political opponents whole. He led the hunt for MIR militants, operated inside Villa Grimaldi and Londres 38, and left a trail of vanished students, workers, and activists whose bodies were never returned.
Host Alexander Lawson traces the rise of this feared officer, the cold machinery of state…
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