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Who inherits Putin’s throne when even his children can’t?
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What happens after Putin? In this video, Elvira Bary takes you inside Russia’s real-life Game of Thrones, uncovering why Putin’s dynasty ends with him. From the Soviet Union’s modernist dreams to today’s neo-feudal Russia, we’ll explore why dictators rarely pass power to their children, the chaos any successor will inherit, and Putin’s own obsession with immortality. Meet the flawed pretenders to the throne and see why Russia’s future may be more fragile, and dangerous, than it looks.
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00:00 Why Putin’s Children Can’t Be His Successors
02:26 The Modernist Project of the Bolsheviks
04:56 The New Middle Ages
8:13 The Problem of Succession
13:57 The Problem Kingdom
18:25 Putin and Immortality
22:08 The Pretenders to the Throne
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What happens after Putin? In this video, Elvira Bary takes you inside Russia’s real-life Game of Thrones, uncovering why Putin’s dynasty ends with him. From the Soviet Union’s modernist dreams to today’s neo-feudal Russia, we’ll explore why dictators rarely pass power to their children, the chaos any successor will inherit, and Putin’s own obsession with immortality. Meet the flawed pretenders to the throne and see why Russia’s future may be more fragile, and dangerous, than it looks.
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00:00 Why Putin’s Children Can’t Be His Successors
02:26 The Modernist Project of the Bolsheviks
04:56 The New Middle Ages
8:13 The Problem of Succession
13:57 The Problem Kingdom
18:25 Putin and Immortality
22:08 The Pretenders to the Throne
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00:00What happens after Putin is not a parallel game.
00:04It is the logic of a dying empire.
00:09Dynasties need heirs, but modern autocracies breed only rivals and deaths.
00:17I'm Elvira Barry.
00:18I was born in the USSR, and today we are going inside Russia's real Game of Thrones
00:27to see why Putin's dynasty ends with him.
00:32Here's our roadmap.
00:34First, the USSR as a modernist project.
00:39The communists once imagined a radiant future.
00:43Why did their paradise collapse into fear and scarcity instead?
00:49Second, the New Middle Ages.
00:52How a country that claimed to leap into the future slipped backward into rigid hierarchy
01:00and sacred dogma.
01:03Third, today's near-feudal Russia.
01:07Why Putin's Russia is less a modern state and more a kingdom of clans, patrons, and vessels.
01:17Four, the succession problem.
01:19Monarchs pass crowns to heirs.
01:22Dictators pass deaths and enemies.
01:26Why Putin's children can't inherit.
01:29Five, a kingdom of trouble.
01:32What any successor would face.
01:35Not stability or loyalty, but an empire cracking from within.
01:42Six, Putin's obsession with immortality.
01:46From shamans to science labs.
01:49Why Putin clings to the fantasy of outliving his own collapse.
01:55Seven, the pretenders to the throne.
01:58The rogue's gallery of contenders, insiders, hawks, technocrats.
02:03And why each one is flawed.
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02:25Let's begin.
02:27The modernist project of the Bolsheviks
02:31A little over a hundred years ago, in 1917, the Bolsheviks believed they had made a great leap forward.
02:40At that time, almost every country in the world, except the United States, was ruled by conservative elites who clung
02:49to the past.
02:50They wanted to keep things exactly as they were, because they were the ones benefiting from it.
02:58America was too far away, too expensive to reach, and too alien to imitate.
03:05Whoever left for their new world rarely came back.
03:09So the American experiment remained distant, strange, and irrelevant.
03:16The Bolsheviks thought they could do better.
03:18Their breakthrough, as they saw it, was to build a modernist project.
03:24One oriented not toward traditions and the past, but toward the future.
03:31Of course, this future looked a lot like heaven to a religious sect.
03:37A paradise of equality and abundance, where everyone lived in harmony.
03:42But dreams like that don't last long in politics.
03:48Very soon, the Bolsheviks discovered the brutal truth.
03:53If you don't crush your political rivals without mercy, you lose power.
03:59And very likely, your head as well.
04:03And that threat was real, because none of their economic experiments worked.
04:09Whatever they tried, the treasury stayed empty, and the people stayed poor.
04:17This went on for decades, until the 1960s, when massive reserves of oil and gas were discovered
04:25in western Siberia.
04:26That changed everything.
04:28The Soviet rulers quietly began selling natural resources to the West, earning hard currency in secret,
04:36and using that money to prop up their regime.
04:39It was an ugly model.
04:42Shameful even.
04:44And that's why they never talked about it.
04:47But it was the foundation that kept the Soviet project alive far longer than it otherwise could have survived.
04:57The New Middle Ages
05:01The Soviet elite abandoned their modernist dreams and dragged the country back into the past.
05:08Before World War II, life in the USSR still resembled a kind of religious commune.
05:15People worshipped the sacred scripture of Marxism-Leninism and revered their spiritual leaders like saints.
05:23You can find what it was like in my novel The Prince of the Soviets.
05:27But after the war, the Soviet Union began to look more and more like a medieval kingdom.
05:34Land, resources, everything in the country belonged to the supreme ruler who could dispose of it all as he pleased.
05:43State ideology hardened into an official religion that no one dared to question.
05:49Ordinary citizens could not leave the country without special permission.
05:53And the elite, in exchange for their loyalty, enjoyed privileges unimaginable for the rest of the population.
06:03It was a rigid hierarchy, a closed caste system.
06:06At the top stood the nomenklatura, an aristocracy in all but name,
06:12while everyone else was expandable material.
06:17In theory, the Soviet rulers still praised revolution and the radiant future.
06:23In practice, they crushed anything that smelled of real innovation.
06:28The modernist project had given way to one of the most conservative systems imaginable.
06:35We often say the Soviet Union collapsed, but that's not quite true.
06:41Yes, large territories broke away.
06:45Yes, communist ideology was abandoned.
06:48Private property appeared, and ordinary people finally had the chance to earn money on their own.
06:55But the structure of power itself barely changed.
07:00The old top player of the party elite did retreat, but only to make room for the second and third
07:07tiers of the nomenklatura.
07:09Look closely at the biographies of today's top Russian officials, and you'll find that nearly all, except Putin himself,
07:19are the children of those old nomenklatura families.
07:23And almost all share one key trait – experience in foreign trade or foreign intelligence.
07:31Because in both the USSR and modern Russia, contact with the outside world, especially the West, was a rare and
07:41valuable privilege.
07:43It created wealth, connections, and leverage.
07:48And those who held this privilege were always the ones who could rise to supreme power.
07:54So, yes, the Soviet Union broke apart, but the feudal state survived.
08:01The names shuffled.
08:03The slogans changed.
08:05Yet the system remained.
08:08Feudal in spirit, feudal in structure, and feudal in soul.
08:13The problem of succession
08:18The system I've just described, Russia's modern feudalism, is extremely stable.
08:24Why?
08:25Because those who are dissatisfied have no tools to destroy it.
08:31Supreme power holds the money, the army, the police, and the intelligence services.
08:37Ordinary citizens have none of these things.
08:40No weapons, no organizations, no tradition of forming independent institutions,
08:46and often not even the knowledge of what an alternative might look like.
08:52The privileged class makes sure this never changes.
08:56Modern Russian rulers don't think about the future.
08:59They have no ideology except a hollow patriotism.
09:04But by patriotism, they mean not the well-being of citizens,
09:09but the preservation of a system that gives them unearned privileges.
09:16Support the system, and you are a patriot.
09:20Criticize it, and you are branded a foreign agent, even an enemy of the state.
09:25So, yes, a feudal autocracy has plenty of tools to suppress resistance,
09:31but it has one fatal weakness.
09:34In medieval kingdoms, succession was simple.
09:38Everyone knew who the heir was.
09:40A crown prince existed, and upon the ruler's death, the throne passed automatically.
09:47In modern autocracies, this is the most fragile link in the chain.
09:52The kings of the Middle Ages ruled by divine right, as if God himself had chosen them.
09:59But Putin and his fellow autocrats came to power not by divine appointment,
10:06but through years of ruthless struggle,
10:09backroom deals and personal networks.
10:13And those networks cannot be inherited like a crown.
10:16Family, in fact, is often the weak spot of every strong man.
10:21The same personality type that allows an autocrat to wield cruelty and claim to supreme power
10:29makes him a poor father.
10:32His children grow up in golden cages,
10:34hidden from rivals and from the public eye,
10:38so that no one can use them as leverage.
10:42Even when a dictator tries to introduce his children into politics,
10:47it rarely works.
10:49Consider Lukashenko from Belarus and his son Kulia.
10:53The boy may stand alongside his father at parades,
10:57but does anyone really believe he inspires loyalty among the elite?
11:03The shadow of a domineering father crushes the child's identity.
11:08For hereditary succession to succeed, several factors must align.
11:14First, the heir must have the personality suited for authoritarian rule.
11:20Second, the elites must accept him.
11:23And third, the general feeling in the heir must suggest that society too accepts him.
11:30Not opinion polls.
11:33Something deeper.
11:35Almost instinctive.
11:36This formula has worked in small, homogeneous states.
11:41In Azerbaijan, Ilham Ali inherited power from his father, Haydar,
11:46backed by a nation of 10 million people, overwhelmingly Azerbaijani,
11:52and by the family's grip on oil wealth.
11:55In North Korea, the Kim dynasty endures thanks to near-total ethnic homogeneity,
12:01a population small enough to intercarnate, and the steady support of China.
12:07When nearly everyone associates their identity with the ruling family,
12:12rejecting the heir feels like rejecting oneself.
12:16But Russia is the opposite.
12:19A vast, diverse empire of more than 140 million people,
12:25divided by ethnicity, religion, culture, and way of life.
12:29Here, many citizens cannot identify with a single majority.
12:33This creates fracture points.
12:36And wherever there is division, ambitious elites will exploit it,
12:43putting forward their own contenders for the throne.
12:47The only way to avoid this is to defy the ruling family,
12:53as the Kims did in North Korea.
12:55But Putin has no such luxury.
12:58His oldest children are women.
13:01And in Russia's political tradition,
13:04female heirs is not taken seriously,
13:07especially since they are not Margaret Thatcher's.
13:10His legitimate daughter lives abroad and has no interest in returning.
13:15His sons with Alina Kabaeva, the gymnast,
13:19are still children.
13:20Their future uncertain.
13:22Most importantly, Putin has no divine legitimacy to pass on.
13:27Russia is a secular state.
13:30Whatever personal beliefs Putin harbor about faith or higher powers,
13:36the people see nothing sacred in him or in his children.
13:40They may support him today,
13:42but that does not mean they would ever recognize his heirs tomorrow.
13:47And that is the heart of the succession problem.
13:51Autocracy can crush dissent,
13:53but it cannot guarantee continuity.
13:57The Problem Kingdom
14:01A stable political system rests on institutions.
14:04That means it does not matter who sits in the chair.
14:09Rules and laws force even fools and villains to act within limits.
14:14Institutions protect a country from the worst instincts of its rulers.
14:19But in Russia, things are arranged differently.
14:23If a man holds supreme power, no rules apply to him.
14:27No law restrains him.
14:29He can commit any crime that serves his interests here and now.
14:34And he does so without hesitation.
14:37This is why succession becomes nearly impossible.
14:41Putin cannot easily hand power to anyone outside his family
14:45because his inheritance is not just vast resources.
14:49It is also a mountain of problems.
14:52Whoever takes his place will inherit both.
14:56And logically, that successor will need to explain why things are collapsing.
15:02The simplest explanation will be to blame the man who came before.
15:08If Putin were living behind a prosperous state,
15:12it would be different.
15:13An era could present himself as the natural continuation of success,
15:18but Putin's Russia is nothing of the sort.
15:22The longer a ruler stays in power,
15:25the further he drifts from his people.
15:27He becomes isolated physically, informationally, intellectually.
15:33Surrounded only by billionaires and foreign dignitaries,
15:36he loses touch with what ordinary citizens endure.
15:40And no one dears to tell him the truth.
15:42Access to the ruler's ear is a sacred resource
15:47and his inner circle fights to fill those few hours of attention
15:51with their own needs,
15:54not the grievances of insignificant nobodies.
15:57So solving real problems is not even on the agenda.
16:02Only one issue matters.
16:04Prolonging power.
16:05And here lies the system's fragility.
16:09In a structure built around a single man,
16:13everyone dreads losing him.
16:15Because after him comes chaos.
16:17This is what always happens when a brutal autocrat
16:20without divine legitimacy
16:22destroys institutions and eliminates rivals
16:25who might otherwise stabilize the state after his death.
16:29Now, imagine the vacuum of power after Putin.
16:34Each faction controls some fragment of the state.
16:38One group holds the Central Election Commission.
16:42Another commands the media,
16:45the FSB,
16:46the Investigative Committee,
16:48the Prosecutor's Office.
16:50Each has its own turf.
16:53And all of them will scramble to sideline competitors,
16:57fearing that under the next regime,
17:00they themselves will be pushed out
17:03in favor of the new rulers' favorites.
17:07Elections won't solve anything.
17:10They are stage plays,
17:13not real contests.
17:15Rotation of power is impossible
17:17because the mechanisms have been destroyed.
17:21Laws are applied selectively only against enemies.
17:24Parliament doesn't govern.
17:26It merely rubber stems
17:27whatever decrees are handed down,
17:30often without even reading them.
17:33The result will be paralysis of the state.
17:36And paralysis will spill into economic crisis.
17:40When the economy falters and power fragments,
17:43people eventually pour into the streets.
17:47Yes, Russia has a deep tradition
17:49of sitting it out at home.
17:51Better to survive quietly
17:53than to risk everything.
17:55But today,
17:56Russia is full of men
17:58who no longer fear violence.
18:01They have been hardened by the war,
18:04trained in killing,
18:05and accustomed to blood.
18:07These are young men
18:08who will want privilege,
18:10status, and wealth.
18:12And they will be ready to take it by force.
18:15Their hands will not tremble.
18:18After all,
18:19they have already killed Ukrainians
18:20who look and sound
18:22almost exactly like their fellow citizens.
18:25Putin and Immortality
18:30From everything we've seen,
18:32it's clear,
18:33Putin's departure would not just mean
18:36his own downfall.
18:37It would mean the collapse of everything,
18:40his power,
18:41his friends' fortunes,
18:42the security of those closest to him.
18:45That is why,
18:46for Putin,
18:47the question of succession is a trap.
18:50The Russian press loves to speculate
18:53who will come after Putin,
18:54but he refuses to answer
18:57because he knows.
18:58The moment he points to someone,
19:02the clans will immediately begin
19:04shifting their loyalty to the air,
19:07ignoring the aging president
19:09who dragged the country into war
19:11and economic ruin.
19:12So, instead of preparing for a successor,
19:15Putin obsesses over
19:16outlasting death itself.
19:18To a Western observer,
19:21the idea of a dictator chasing immortality,
19:25seeking elixirs of life,
19:27finding longevity research,
19:30even consulting shamans
19:31sounds like medieval fantasy.
19:34Something ripped from the pages
19:36of an old chronicle.
19:38But inside Russia's system,
19:40it makes perfect sense.
19:42If you know that after Putin comes chaos,
19:45then everyone,
19:47Putin,
19:47his cronies,
19:48his bureaucrats,
19:49his business elites,
19:50even much of the population
19:52has one shared goal.
19:54Delay the day of reckoning
19:56for as long as possible.
19:58At the top of society,
20:00nearly everyone is trying to do
20:02three things.
20:03First,
20:04deny that horrors of Ukraine
20:06and the repression at home
20:08have anything to do
20:09with their personal fate.
20:11Second,
20:12convince themselves
20:13that Russia is simply too vast
20:15and too rich to collapse.
20:17Third,
20:18do whatever it takes
20:20to preserve the status quo
20:21just a little longer.
20:23This logic fits straight
20:25into Putin's obsession
20:27with longevity.
20:28He pours vast sums
20:30into life extension research.
20:32His daughter,
20:33Maria Voronsova,
20:34is directly involved
20:35in biohacking studies.
20:37After all,
20:38who else could be trusted
20:39with something so sensitive?
20:42State-owned giants
20:44run by his loyal friends
20:46funnel money
20:47into these projects.
20:48But Putin's quest
20:50for immortality
20:51does not stop
20:51with laborers.
20:53He is,
20:53in his own way,
20:55a mystical man.
20:56He sincerely believes
20:58in the otherworldly.
21:00He consults shamans.
21:01He listens to priests
21:03from different faiths.
21:05Holy men,
21:06miracle workers,
21:07spiritual practitioners
21:09are flown in to meet him.
21:12For Putin,
21:13this is not classic religion.
21:15It's a patchwork
21:16of orthodox pilgrimages,
21:19shamanic rituals
21:20and esoteric practices,
21:22all stitched together
21:24by his fear of death.
21:26And history has seen this before.
21:29Consider Qin Shi Huang,
21:31the first emperor
21:32of a united China,
21:33the man who built
21:34the famous terracotta army.
21:36He conquered his rivals,
21:39expanded endlessly
21:40through war,
21:41and then,
21:42near the end,
21:44turned his gaze
21:44to immortality.
21:46He summoned magicians,
21:48alchemists,
21:49men who promised miracles.
21:51He swallowed elixirs.
21:54He sought secrets
21:55from the gods,
21:57but none of it
21:58saved him.
21:59He died suddenly,
22:01and because the empire
22:02he built
22:03rested only
22:04on his shoulders,
22:06the structure
22:06collapsed soon after.
22:08The Pretenders
22:10to the Throne
22:13Before the war,
22:14the ratings
22:15of Russia's politicians
22:17looked predictable.
22:18At the top,
22:19of course,
22:20Vladimir Putin,
22:21far ahead
22:22of everyone else.
22:24Behind him
22:25came two figures,
22:27Foreign Minister
22:27Sergei Lavrov
22:28and Defense Minister
22:30Sergei Shogu.
22:31Today,
22:31both are finished.
22:32Lavrov has aged rapidly,
22:35his health declining,
22:36with persistent rumors
22:38of heavy drinking.
22:39And foreign affairs,
22:41a disaster.
22:43Shogu has feared
22:44no better.
22:45Burned out,
22:46disgraced by
22:47the catastrophic failures
22:49of Russian war
22:50in Ukraine,
22:51Putin spares him
22:52punishment,
22:53not out of kindness,
22:55but out of strategy.
22:57In Putin's circle,
22:59the closest others
23:00are never punished,
23:01no matter how badly
23:03they fail.
23:04That way,
23:05none of them
23:06will switch sides
23:07to save themselves.
23:09Instead,
23:10their deputies
23:11take the fall.
23:13Shogus
23:13have been imprisoned
23:14in waves.
23:15So,
23:16if not them,
23:17then who?
23:17Let's examine
23:19the main types
23:20of possible errors.
23:21Each one flawed,
23:23but each one
23:24representing
23:24a real possibility.
23:26First,
23:27the successful insider.
23:28Russia's next ruler
23:29will need
23:30at least
23:31some aura
23:31of achievement,
23:32especially after
23:33the war ends
23:34in what will
23:36ultimately be
23:37remembered as a defeat,
23:38no matter how many
23:39eastern Ukrainian territories
23:41Russia temporarily
23:42occupies.
23:43One man fits
23:44this profile,
23:46Moscow's mayor,
23:47Sergei Sabenin.
23:48Moscow,
23:49under his leadership,
23:50has undeniably
23:51improved.
23:52Corruption
23:53is everywhere,
23:54of course,
23:55but Moscow's budget
23:56is so vast
23:57that after
23:58the skimming,
24:00enough remains
24:01for visible progress.
24:02The city gleams
24:04with new parks,
24:05renovated streets
24:06and bustling restaurants.
24:09Just yesterday,
24:10a Moscow friend
24:11told me,
24:12everything is fine here,
24:13stores are full,
24:15money flows,
24:16she ignores
24:17the closures
24:17in the provinces,
24:19the gasoline shortages,
24:20the factory shut downs,
24:22she doesn't want to know,
24:24and millions of Moscovites
24:25live in the same bubble.
24:27In Russia,
24:28it is the capital
24:30that decides power.
24:31If Irkutsk rebels,
24:33Moscow shrugs.
24:36But if Moscow rebels,
24:38the regime trembles.
24:39That makes Sabenin
24:41significant.
24:42He avoids direct association
24:44with the war,
24:45which shows shrewdness.
24:47If he secures support
24:49from the security services
24:51and crafts the right
24:52public image,
24:54he could win
24:55a landslide.
24:57His flaw?
24:58Age.
24:59At 67,
25:01he represents
25:02the old guard.
25:04And in today's Russia,
25:06the youth resent the elders
25:08who sent them
25:09to die in Ukraine
25:10while staying safe at home.
25:13Second,
25:13the chosen successor.
25:15This scenario unfolds
25:17only if Putin
25:18becomes too ill to govern,
25:20but still able
25:20to bless a replacement,
25:22someone who guarantees
25:24his immunity.
25:25Before the war,
25:26one name circulated,
25:28Alexey Dumin.
25:29Putin's former bodyguard
25:30turned regional governor.
25:32But here lies the trap.
25:35Putin's hand-picked air
25:36will be smeared
25:38with Putin's crimes.
25:39If Putin escapes
25:41into the grave,
25:42the successor remains
25:44to face judgment,
25:46a poisoned gift,
25:47the security hawk.
25:48This camp centers
25:50on Dmitry Patrushev,
25:52son of former FSB chief
25:54Nikolai Patrushev,
25:56still a powerful figure.
25:58Patrushev Jr.
25:59is backed by men
26:00like Igor Sechin,
26:02Putin's oil-tagoon,
26:04but hawks
26:05thrive on violence
26:06and property grabs.
26:08Their rise means
26:09endless wars
26:10and purges,
26:11and most of the elite
26:13doesn't want that.
26:14They want their yachts,
26:16their villas,
26:16and their money brought.
26:18The hawks
26:19threaten all of it.
26:21If the chance comes,
26:23other factions
26:24will unite
26:25to crush them.
26:26Fourth,
26:27the economic candidate.
26:29This is where
26:30figures like
26:30Denis Mantorov emerge,
26:32the deputy prime minister
26:34who once served
26:35as industry
26:36and trade minister.
26:38Behind him
26:38stands
26:39Sergei Chemizov,
26:40Putin's
26:41long-time
26:42KGB comrade
26:43from Dresden,
26:44now head of Rostech,
26:46the state defense giant.
26:48This is the
26:49oligarch bloc,
26:50the technocrats
26:51and industrial barons
26:53who might
26:54rally around
26:55a figure
26:55promising stability,
26:57not ideology.
26:59But their power
27:00is fragile,
27:01dependent on
27:02corruption
27:02and the stability
27:04of the military-industrial complex.
27:06Fifth,
27:07the dark horse,
27:09the unknown candidate.
27:10This would require
27:12either the army
27:13or the streets
27:14to rise,
27:14but for the army
27:15to matter,
27:16several conditions
27:17must be met.
27:18A crushing defeat
27:19at the front,
27:20an awareness
27:21that Russia
27:22is collapsing,
27:23the emergence
27:24of a charismatic
27:25commander
27:26and an armed
27:27movement
27:27to unite
27:28behind him.
27:30None of this
27:31exists today.
27:32The same goes
27:33for street protest.
27:35For it to matter,
27:37the illusion
27:38of normal life
27:39in Moscow
27:40and St. Petersburg
27:41must shudder.
27:42People must feel
27:43the system failing.
27:45Right now,
27:46they do not.
27:48And the one man
27:49who might have
27:50filled that role,
27:51Alexei Navalny,
27:52is dead.
27:53His followers,
27:54as often happens,
27:56turned on
27:57one another,
27:58squandering credibility.
28:00So,
28:01what do we have?
28:02A rocks gallery.
28:03Sabanin,
28:04competent,
28:05but old.
28:07Dumin,
28:07loyal,
28:08but tainted.
28:09Patrushev,
28:10dangerous hawk,
28:12Mantorov,
28:12technocrat
28:13with shadowy patterns.
28:15And faint hope
28:17for a dark horse
28:18who does not yet exist.
28:20None of these options
28:22inspire confidence.
28:23Each carries
28:24risks,
28:25weaknesses,
28:26and ghosts
28:27of failure.
28:28So,
28:28let me ask you,
28:30in this gallery
28:31of flood contenders,
28:32who do you think
28:33Russia could tolerate
28:34as its next ruler?
28:37Tell me
28:37in the comments.
28:38I want to hear
28:39your instincts.
28:41And if you love history
28:42and want to understand
28:44what's happening
28:45inside Europe's
28:46last empire,
28:47look for my
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28:49on Amazon.
28:50It's not just analysis.
28:52It's an epic saga
28:53with unforgettable characters.
28:56Meticulous details
28:57and the trauma
28:59of people fighting
28:59to outweigh the system
29:01determined to crush them.
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