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Bombs, Bloggers, Bodyguards and Billions: Brutal Bribes, Blasted Children and Broken Speech in Ukraine, Russia and the West
Tonight on International Flavor, Samuel Trapp rips the wrapping off wartime fairy tales. From a nine-year-old Moscow boy maimed by a booby-trapped banknote to a Ukrainian POW calmly confessing rape, murder and “clean-up” raids in Kursk, the show walks through atrocities you’re not supposed to hear about. Add in Angelina Jolie’s $100,000 “bodyguard bribe,” a Siberian blogger jailed after biting a cop, a literal ton of missing Ukrainian money, plus echoes of Afghan and Iraq pallets of cash, and Samuel asks one blunt question: who owns reality when East and West both punish the wrong words?…
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