She’s In Russia is a podcast about Russia. Co-hosted by Olivia Capozzalo (St. Petersburg) and Smith Freeman (Brooklyn), She’s In Russia aims to bring a more nuanced image of Russia and Russians to a Western audience. The podcast has taken an in-depth look at everything from the life and music of Viktor Tsoi to the trash protests outside of Moscow, to the government-blocking of the encrypted messenger app Telegram.
This week, they address the image and history of the gopnik. Popularized in 2012 on 4chan with memes like “why do slavs squat?”, the gopnik seems to be one of the few images Americans have of Russians. But before the meme, there was a whole etymology and history of “gopnik” dating as far back as tzarist times.
Same as reading Russia Today.
I’ve listened for them for a while. There’s some funny episodes, about telegram or about russian banya, but there are red flags for me.
So, in two distinct episodes they said following:
1. Staling did something good, industrialization and stuff. (no, he did not, it was not worth of millions of lives)
2. Cannot trust Bellingcat, they didn’t release their methodology. That’s about Skripal’s murder. (meduza.io had a good article about Bellingcat’s methodology, and podcast episode about that, TheInsider has a long article about that) — it just seems shesinrussia didn’t do their research, at all.
This is propaganda. Pro-Putin propaganda. Take care, don’t listen it if it’s your only information source about current Russian affairs.
Interesting, thank you for your research. If a couple of young women did a mistake it doesnt necessarily means a Russian propaganda. I will be looking up for their reply.
Hi Alexander –
I kindly invite you to go soak your head. Stalin and Putin can fuck right off for all we care. Thanks for listening to the podcast, tell your friends about it!
– Smith