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Speaker 3: One of my friend asked me, have you ever been
Speaker 3: in love? And I said yes, of course, every single time,
Speaker 3: and he said no, really because of my trainings, I
Speaker 3: feel that sometimes every single man in my life, even
Speaker 3: for their romantic relationship or something, I still look at them.
Speaker 3: That's my targets. I have different targets in my life.
Speaker 3: It's a different period of times, and manism is the
Speaker 3: tool to achieve your goal. I know it sounds really bad.
Speaker 4: Sorry, that's me.
Speaker 3: Welcome to my world.
Speaker 5: To enjoy you.
Speaker 4: I'm really sorry.
Speaker 6: I how to do that?
Speaker 7: I go on my.
Speaker 5: Juty friends and my god like to you have to tre.
Speaker 7: Verses Episode nine, chapter nineteen. The story so far.
Speaker 8: So I just finished listening to the first eight episodes
Speaker 8: that to Die For. It was the most compelling thing
Speaker 8: I've listened to in a long time, and this is
Speaker 8: not my genre I typically listened to because it's when
Speaker 8: I lived, and it was just thought on fascinating.
Speaker 7: This is Robin Drake, the FBI agent whose voice you
Speaker 7: heard at the beginning of this podcast. He's just finished
Speaker 7: listening to the first eight episodes and called to share
Speaker 7: some thoughts from his experience of twenty two years recruiting
Speaker 7: Russian spies for American intelligence.
Speaker 9: It's completely conceivable and believable.
Speaker 8: Everything she said. Your heart just breaks for the trauma
Speaker 8: that not just she, but.
Speaker 9: I mean they take traffic in human beings.
Speaker 8: I mean, that's exactly what they're doing. They corrupt them,
Speaker 8: they destroy these women.
Speaker 7: Robin is talking about Alia's experiences in the FSB, the
Speaker 7: Russian intelligence agency formed as a successor to the KGB,
Speaker 7: sharing her training. Aliyah was selected for a secret program
Speaker 7: for seduction agents, taught by a female major there, who
Speaker 7: Robin sees as a victim of the system, forced to
Speaker 7: create new victims.
Speaker 8: And the other thing that struck me too is how
Speaker 8: can ruins that behavior has been through time Courkamicans Russians
Speaker 8: In my entire time and the FBI, never once did
Speaker 8: I ever see a Russian female intelligence officer.
Speaker 9: They don't do it. Nope, it is not their culture.
Speaker 8: And if someone rose into ranks, it was because they
Speaker 8: were doing.
Speaker 9: What her major was doing, training other females just.
Speaker 8: To be tools, and you know, I call them screwdrivers
Speaker 8: and wrenches, you know, to be thrown away.
Speaker 9: It's totally objectified.
Speaker 7: I want to ask you something that I've thought about,
Speaker 7: and talking to you is bring that thought to the surface,
Speaker 7: which is part of me thinks, assuming this all checks out,
Speaker 7: was this a real institutional program to train sex buys
Speaker 7: or was this a way for the higher ups at
Speaker 7: the academy to create a ring of abuse with these
Speaker 7: women by pretending it's that.
Speaker 9: I'm going to say yes to both.
Speaker 8: And here's why I frame it like that, because from
Speaker 8: our context in the West, it looks like it's one
Speaker 8: or the other, but from their context, from where they
Speaker 8: come from, it's all the same.
Speaker 7: We talk about the colonel who ran the academy that
Speaker 7: Leah went to, how he abused her on the first day,
Speaker 7: and she was put in a position where she had
Speaker 7: to seduce him and make him think she was his
Speaker 7: girlfriend in order to protect herself.
Speaker 9: There's no checks and balances whatsoever.
Speaker 8: Their checks and balances is I'm the colonel, I say,
Speaker 8: what goes unless you were a colonel that's closed.
Speaker 9: It a booton than me. And that's exactly what this
Speaker 9: entire programs. I mean, it looks like because that they.
Speaker 8: Got a colonel in there that was, you know, needed
Speaker 8: his sexual needs so filled. So I'm going to create
Speaker 8: a program that satisfies me. And I'm glad she's getting
Speaker 8: good counseling and therapy for it too, because they destroyed her.
Speaker 9: This is not about nation states.
Speaker 8: This is about you know, nation state making excuses for
Speaker 8: discussing human behavior and excusing it because it's serving the
Speaker 8: greater need of our country.
Speaker 7: With FBI agent Robin Dreeke's thoughts here in mind, we
Speaker 7: return now to Leah's story. There have been some comments
Speaker 7: questioning Leah, and as mentioned in episode two, we will
Speaker 7: of course get to that, but for now, let's just
Speaker 7: listen because this story takes some unpredictable turns.
Speaker 6: Chapter twenty debate.
Speaker 3: In two thousand and three, President Putin signed and founded
Speaker 3: a special Department fs KYN and that department was established
Speaker 3: only for one reason and one mission, to stop drug
Speaker 3: trafficking from Afghanistan.
Speaker 7: This was the new department that Aliyah would be working in.
Speaker 7: Angry that Aliyah had rejected his marriage proposal, the colonel
Speaker 7: had handed her off to his friend, a lieutenant general
Speaker 7: in the FSKN, to start working under him and be
Speaker 7: his next victim.
Speaker 3: So next day I went to the new department. It
Speaker 3: was two floors building, white walls inside, and it was
Speaker 3: a really small department. So we had maybe around like
Speaker 3: fifteen agents, no women, only male. So the new department
Speaker 3: welcomed me and we had our morning report routine where
Speaker 3: we had our tasks, our assignments, and.
Speaker 7: It was Eliah's first task in the FSCN the Federal
Speaker 7: Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation, was to shadow
Speaker 7: the other agents as they staked out houses where drugs
Speaker 7: were sold.
Speaker 3: I would need to go with my team, who would
Speaker 3: be like two or three other agents, and we would
Speaker 3: walk on the streets and find out places where drugs
Speaker 3: would be would be sold throughly tough to go their back.
Speaker 7: Among Leah's many challenges there was her new commander, the
Speaker 7: lieutenant general, who repeated a pattern Aliyah was now tragically
Speaker 7: familiar with. The first time, he phrased it as a question.
Speaker 3: Less than a week I served in that new department.
Speaker 3: The lieutenant general called me and he said to me
Speaker 3: that all right, so how do you like your new department?
Speaker 3: And said, yeah, it's pretty nice, thank you. And he said, well,
Speaker 3: let's go for a dinner. And I said, oh my god,
Speaker 3: I can't do it today. I have some things to do.
Speaker 3: He noticed that I was worshitting him, and he noticed
Speaker 3: that I was lying, but I just didn't. I just
Speaker 3: was scared. He gave me this weird feeling, the feeling
Speaker 3: that I should run away. But then he said, okay,
Speaker 3: if not today, when is the next time you tell me?
Speaker 3: So we go out. And then I called to the cornell.
Speaker 3: I said, you know, he wants to go out with me,
Speaker 3: and Cornel said that you have to accept his offer.
Speaker 3: And I understood that I don't really have anywhere to
Speaker 3: go and anyone to ask anyway. The whole week I
Speaker 3: was trying not to be seen by my commander, even
Speaker 3: every morning at the reporting like I always looked like down.
Speaker 7: At one of those morning meetings, Aliah received her first
Speaker 7: actual assignment to stake out of the credit apartment building
Speaker 7: where drugs were likely being sold and send in an
Speaker 7: undercover informant to get evidence.
Speaker 3: And I remember it was my first mission. I never
Speaker 3: done anything like this. So we had like one man.
Speaker 3: He was a addict. He used to help agents to
Speaker 3: buy drugs and tell us what kind is it? Is
Speaker 3: it good or bad? He was like a bait. He's
Speaker 3: probably dead already. So we would organize this operation where
Speaker 3: we would give him money which war marked previously by us.
Speaker 6: Here's how this thing marked.
Speaker 7: Once their informant bought the drugs, the team would then
Speaker 7: raid the house, make arrests, and gather evidence, including the
Speaker 7: marked money. However, when a Leah entered the house, she
Speaker 7: saw more than drugs and weapons. She saw evidence of
Speaker 7: the human trafficking operation that would haunt her for the
Speaker 7: rest of her life. Listener discretion is highly advised.
Speaker 3: That boy he bought heroin a doze. He paid and
Speaker 3: then we were waiting and we saw that he was
Speaker 3: giving this money. We came to the house myself, three
Speaker 3: other agents and another agents. And when we entered the house,
Speaker 3: and when we entered the houses so like killed overdoors,
Speaker 3: like bodies of kids, like many.
Speaker 4: And it was the whole floor was like full of.
Speaker 3: Like this used heroin doses and kids who were like
Speaker 3: five years old and another was just like a little baby.
Speaker 3: And then we checked the rooms and there was like
Speaker 3: other girls sitting in the rooms, like I guess like
Speaker 3: they all were overdosed, and some of them they were
Speaker 3: they were like metallic bats and they were they had
Speaker 3: like bracelets on the on the wrist. They couldn't do anything,
Speaker 3: but they couldn't even they couldn't even speak.
Speaker 4: They were completely high and overdose.
Speaker 3: And they just couldn't even talk to them. And I
Speaker 3: saw their hands. They had huge bruises in their hands
Speaker 3: and legs. I don't know how many men these poor
Speaker 3: girls had to had to be with. And some of
Speaker 3: them after like and the embassy took them. Some of
Speaker 3: them they they just died before they started, like they
Speaker 3: before they went to the hospital. They died in the car.
Speaker 3: It was awful. I I was crying then the whole evening.
Speaker 3: They also was one guy who was almost like my age.
Speaker 3: He was actually from Kazakhstan. To when I was crying,
Speaker 3: he supported me. He said, I know what you're going through.
Speaker 3: It's never okay to see that bodies, especially children's bodies,
Speaker 3: but he said, you know what, we can change it.
Speaker 3: Let's make it happen, and every single day. When we
Speaker 3: find these houses, when we arrest these motherfuckers, we change
Speaker 3: the world. And when I heard this my father's words
Speaker 3: that I have to protect people, especially children, especially women,
Speaker 3: and all this learning in the academy, I felt like
Speaker 3: I really can do I'm saying, and I just I
Speaker 3: just wanted to.
Speaker 4: Change that shit.
Speaker 3: I was so angry, so that what made me strong.
Speaker 3: I promised myself that I'll do everything to help wherever
Speaker 3: it takes.
Speaker 7: With this new sense of mission and purpose, Eli decided
Speaker 7: that she would stop avoiding the Lieutenant general and tell
Speaker 7: him directly that she would not be going out with him.
Speaker 7: She was here to work and make a difference.
Speaker 3: So I decided to speak with the general. I knocked
Speaker 3: his door and came to his room in the office,
Speaker 3: and I said, Sir, I cannot go with you for dinner.
Speaker 3: I cannot even go out with you because I I'm
Speaker 3: not available. I have commitments in front of a man.
Speaker 3: And he said, no, I already spoke with him. It's
Speaker 3: all fine. He passed you over to me, so it's okay.
Speaker 3: So now it's my turn. And I was like, my god, what, like,
Speaker 3: I just hated that situation. And he said you don't
Speaker 3: understand how privileged you are, because I am feeling.
Speaker 2: To have.
Speaker 3: Sex with you, not relationship, not commitments, not love. And
Speaker 3: I said, you know what, I'm not doing that, like
Speaker 3: I'm not becoming against someone's you know, like a hole
Speaker 3: for like wherever. If like Cornell doesn't want to protect
Speaker 3: me anymore, I'll do it myself. So no, and he
Speaker 3: said to me, I just want to warn you, young lady,
Speaker 3: if you think that you can be cleverer than me,
Speaker 3: this is not possible. And someone may tell you the
Speaker 3: story what really happened with the female employee his former
Speaker 3: employee when she rejected me. And he said, so, if
Speaker 3: you will reject me, it'll be that. But I thought
Speaker 3: that moment he's trying to make it more dramatic. I
Speaker 3: would never imagine that he really meant it.
Speaker 5: He did.
Speaker 7: After Lee left the meeting, she asked the colleague she
Speaker 7: trusted most, the one who is also from Kazakhstan, what
Speaker 7: had happened to the last female agent who rejected the
Speaker 7: lieutenant general's advances.
Speaker 3: So he said, a few years ago, in that department,
Speaker 3: there was a female agent and she was beautiful, and
Speaker 3: he called her a black Swan because she had this
Speaker 3: beautiful long black hair and beautiful eyes, and she studied
Speaker 3: in the same department where I did. He said, this
Speaker 3: maltenant general approached her to have with her some sexual relationship,
Speaker 3: and she rejected him, so he sent her to one
Speaker 3: mission where she was shot, so she was killed. And
Speaker 3: he said, like, just be careful because this dude definitely
Speaker 3: killed so many people. He's so cruel.
Speaker 6: Chapter twenty one the Banya.
Speaker 7: Shortly after her meeting with the lieutenant General, and likely
Speaker 7: not by coincidence, Elia's missions became even more dangerous.
Speaker 3: My colleagues arrested one criminal, quite young boy. He was
Speaker 3: so violent. He would just kill people around him, just
Speaker 3: without any reason. For example, if they would loan money
Speaker 3: from criminal gang and they wouldn't pay on time, he
Speaker 3: would kill them and their families. He could kill living kids.
Speaker 3: My colleagues arrested him. Then they didn't have any evidences.
Speaker 3: They couldn't get any confession or whatever from him, so
Speaker 3: they had to let him leave. And I pray to
Speaker 3: God they wouldn't send me to seduce him or whatever, because,
Speaker 3: like I mean, I didn't want to deal with this guy.
Speaker 3: He was completely out of his mind and he was
Speaker 3: just scary, and they asked me to set him up.
Speaker 7: For the first time, Aliyah was asked to use her
Speaker 7: special training. They hoped that where their traditional police tactics,
Speaker 7: including violence, had not worked, seduction would.
Speaker 3: When I received that assignment, they said, you just need
Speaker 3: to basically make him to come to the police. It
Speaker 3: would be sauna. You won't be alone, We will be
Speaker 3: with you, We will follow you, so it will be fine.
Speaker 7: The sauna because of its all purpose use as a bathhouse,
Speaker 7: social club and meeting place in Russia with the sight
Speaker 7: of many intelligence operations, not all of which ended well
Speaker 7: for the target.
Speaker 3: If they would have a proof that you are the
Speaker 3: enemy of the country, they would usually like take you
Speaker 3: to like this sauna, which is Bania Russian Banya and
Speaker 3: this it was like, give you some drinks with the poison.
Speaker 3: That's it, it's easy.
Speaker 7: With this particular mission, Aliyah would not be giving her
Speaker 7: target poison.
Speaker 6: She would be slipping something else into a drink.
Speaker 3: We dropped to the nightclub very kind of like underground
Speaker 3: where everybody can basically took drugs in front of everyone.
Speaker 3: He had like a small little army with him, his
Speaker 3: gang people, criminals, and we decided that next night, we'll
Speaker 3: get prepared and I will come to that club and
Speaker 3: I will try to make him to go with me
Speaker 3: to sauna, where I would need to give him a drink.
Speaker 3: It wasn't a poison, but first of all, it has
Speaker 3: but the indigrant, which makes you talk a lot. You
Speaker 3: can give answers to any questions. So I was supposed
Speaker 3: to give it to him in the drink. Then I
Speaker 3: had to open the door to my team to come in,
Speaker 3: and then they would continue with him to do whatever
Speaker 3: they needed.
Speaker 7: Sergei, her team leader, gave her an unnamed drug and
Speaker 7: a small bottle with an eye dropper, and then dropped
Speaker 7: her off at the club.
Speaker 3: I took that bottle of which my college gave me
Speaker 3: in the bag. I took some condoms as well with me,
Speaker 3: and I was ready. So I arrived there by taxing,
Speaker 3: and then I knew that my team was waiting in
Speaker 3: the car. I came in and I saw him sitting
Speaker 3: at the table with the two other guys, and they
Speaker 3: were like two girls. They looked just perfect, you know,
Speaker 3: just like clothes, makeup everything. So I had to attract
Speaker 3: his attention and I started to dance.
Speaker 7: One of the most important techniques of sex bonage is
Speaker 7: to never approach your target directly, because if he suspects
Speaker 7: you're an undercover agent, it could be a fatal mistake.
Speaker 7: So instead, once the lea caught her target's eye, she
Speaker 7: started a conversation with his two female friends about their clothing.
Speaker 3: I started to speak with the girl first, and I
Speaker 3: said like, oh my god, like, where did you buy yours?
Speaker 3: And she said, oh, I bought it, like in this shop.
Speaker 3: So we started to talk really enthusiastically. So he looked
Speaker 3: at me. I noticed, and I remember I did like
Speaker 3: this long look into his eyes, really long, soill he
Speaker 3: could feel it. This girl who was next to me,
Speaker 3: she's like, oh, sit down with us.
Speaker 7: Eliah sat there and spoke with the women, ignoring her
Speaker 7: target except for the occasional seductive glance.
Speaker 3: And then they were continuing partying and everything. And I
Speaker 3: was thinking, like, how can I approach him where? I mean,
Speaker 3: it would be just simple to say, hey, would you
Speaker 3: like to fuck? I had to intrigue him, just like
Speaker 3: a couple of days ago. He was in an interrogation room,
Speaker 3: so you definitely understand that potentially he'd been watched.
Speaker 7: Eventually, an opportunity to learn her target to the sauna
Speaker 7: came and one of the women she was talking to
Speaker 7: started mentioning after parties and asking if anyone had cocaine.
Speaker 3: So I said, oh, by the way, I have have
Speaker 3: some good drugs and she said really like yeah, and
Speaker 3: she told all your guys like, oh, she has like
Speaker 3: good drugs. She's like, okay, where is it? This is
Speaker 3: like video. I said, oh no, I can call my guy,
Speaker 3: like he will come and bring it. He usually brings
Speaker 3: it to like the sauna so and so, and like
Speaker 3: do you know this sauna? She's like, oh, yeah, I know,
Speaker 3: I know the sauna, like I've been there. I said like, yeah,
Speaker 3: why don't you have a party there. So I wanted
Speaker 3: this proposal would come from her mouth rather than mine,
Speaker 3: because I was the new girl who like nobody knew.
Speaker 3: So she passed this information to him and he seemed
Speaker 3: like agreed to that, and so I went to the toilet.
Speaker 3: I texted to my Sergi, to my guy and I said, listen,
Speaker 3: so we are going to that sauna, but he wants drugs.
Speaker 3: What about drugs which we have in the department.
Speaker 7: SERGEI agreed to go to the evidence locker get some
Speaker 7: cocaine and bring it to a leah before she left
Speaker 7: the club.
Speaker 3: My other colleagues stay were following us. They came to
Speaker 3: the sauna, everybody got undressed. I took the bag of
Speaker 3: cocaine to the table. I put it on the table.
Speaker 3: They started to sniff it. So there were like two
Speaker 3: girls they started to swim in the swimming pool and
Speaker 3: two guys hanging out with them. So my target for
Speaker 3: a while, he was like by himself. What I had
Speaker 3: to do. I had to take him separately to another
Speaker 3: room so it would be just me and him in
Speaker 3: the room.
Speaker 7: Elijah wasn't sure how to get her target, this gang
Speaker 7: enforcer and murderer, into the other room, until she remembered
Speaker 7: something else she'd been taught in her training, something that
Speaker 7: was very unusual to learn at a military academy.
Speaker 3: I said like, would you like some massage? And he's
Speaker 3: like yeah, and I started to massage his shoulders. He
Speaker 3: drank that cocktail with vodka, but he didn't drink that
Speaker 3: much because he was more like using drugs. I didn't
Speaker 3: really not when and how to pour these drops into
Speaker 3: hit glass. And I was telling him, oh my god,
Speaker 3: like you're so strong, you're so like masculine and you
Speaker 3: have so much tensions, and if you would lay down,
Speaker 3: I can do good massage for you for the whole bag.
Speaker 7: Leah suggested to her target that they move into a
Speaker 7: more comfortable room, hoping that his friends would just assume
Speaker 7: they were hooking up and not worry about him.
Speaker 3: He said, yeah, let's do it. So when we were
Speaker 3: walking into the room, I pick up his glass and
Speaker 3: I'd pick up also like my glass, but it was
Speaker 3: same looking cocktail with cola, and coke has a quite
Speaker 3: strong taste rate, so if you use any poison or
Speaker 3: you use any type of drug, coke tastes so strong
Speaker 3: that it's just cover it all, so you wouldn't feel
Speaker 3: the taste of poison. So he laid down and I said, like,
Speaker 3: let me give you the drink. And when he was
Speaker 3: laying I just like took out the drop and put
Speaker 3: like three drops into his drink. And I put my
Speaker 3: glass like nearby, but I didn't touch it, and then
Speaker 3: I just gave it to him. I said, like, just
Speaker 3: drink it and I will do like message straight away.
Speaker 3: So he drank it. He put it like on the side,
Speaker 3: and he laid down, and then I went on top
Speaker 3: of him, and I started to massage his shoulders. While
Speaker 3: I was massaging, I felt like that his muscle was
Speaker 3: like relaxing, relaxing, relaxing, and then he basically stopped reacting
Speaker 3: and he was completely out. So I took his hand
Speaker 3: and it was completely limp. So I was like, okay,
Speaker 3: so he's ready. And when I stood up, I took
Speaker 3: my glass and when I went to the main lobby,
Speaker 3: just wash it. Basically. I didn't tell anything to his
Speaker 3: friends and they were like still in the swimming pool.
Speaker 3: I just left and when I was leaving, I texted
Speaker 3: to Sergate, the commander of the group of this team, Okay,
Speaker 3: it's done. He's like he passed over. That's it. And
Speaker 3: I took a taxi and I went home.
Speaker 7: Eliah assumed that her first seduction mission had been a success.
Speaker 7: That is until a few days later when the criminals
Speaker 7: family said that he'd gone missing that night and began
Speaker 7: accusing the police of having done something to him.
Speaker 6: So Aliah asked the colleague about it.
Speaker 3: He's like, I don't know, but I know that Sergi
Speaker 3: was working this case and it's not good for him.
Speaker 3: And I thought, okay, so if this criminal is missing.
Speaker 3: I am involved in this case, perhaps in this murder,
Speaker 3: and I thought, you know, it could be really bad
Speaker 3: to me too, because I was the one who gave
Speaker 3: him this this string who knows what liquid.
Speaker 7: As Leah reckoned with the possibility that she might have
Speaker 7: killed him, she thought about how many innocent people this
Speaker 7: criminal had killed himself, just literally because he enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: And by that time I didn't feel bad about him.
Speaker 3: He was just like a zombie who brings only a
Speaker 3: nightmare to everyone.
Speaker 7: As for whether she accidentally overdosed him or something else
Speaker 7: happened afterward, Leah would never know.
Speaker 3: I mean, in the end of the day, I never
Speaker 3: know if they were still straight like that or not,
Speaker 3: because it was the job of the cleaners. We used
Speaker 3: to have cleaners, people who like government, people who would
Speaker 3: come and clean.
Speaker 7: Even her colleagues from the mission that night refused to
Speaker 7: talk about it.
Speaker 3: The only one thing what he said to me, never
Speaker 3: tell anyone about what happened. So I never said anything.
Speaker 3: And day by day I would come to my office,
Speaker 3: to my department and work and go to all these
Speaker 3: operations and just do my job. And I've seen more
Speaker 3: and more crimes on the street I would see more
Speaker 3: and more dead bodies, and it was really dangerous and
Speaker 3: it was risky.
Speaker 7: As Leah continued receiving new missions, she noticed that the
Speaker 7: lieutenant General hadn't propositioned her again. So she thought, she
Speaker 7: say from him.
Speaker 3: I thought he would just leave me, you know, just okay,
Speaker 3: it is what it is.
Speaker 7: But like the predator, he was lieutenant general was just
Speaker 7: waiting for the right time to strike, and a few
Speaker 7: weeks later he's struck it away. Elien never saw coming.
Speaker 3: Everybody were leaving his office after the reporting, and then
Speaker 3: he said, oh, yeah, you were staying. I have a
Speaker 3: special assignment for you. And I was like shit, So
Speaker 3: I stayed in his room. He closed the door and
Speaker 3: he said, so what did you decide? And I played stupid.
Speaker 3: I said, like about what, sorry, like I don't understand,
Speaker 3: and he's like, okay, so I see, like you don't
Speaker 3: get it right, all right, you can leave now. I
Speaker 3: pretended that nothing happened really, that he's not peaced, like
Speaker 3: he's okay, but in fact he was really pissed. So
Speaker 3: the next morning and he had our reporting as always,
Speaker 3: and he said, by the way, agent, you have a
Speaker 3: chance to pay back to your country by going to
Speaker 3: do war, make us to be proud of you. And
Speaker 3: when he said it, I heard all my colleagues were like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, she is fucked. Good luck to her,
Speaker 3: like when you'll go to the funeral. Inside of me,
Speaker 3: I started to shake of anger and hate. He's sending
Speaker 3: me to the Chechen war for me to be killed
Speaker 3: over there and never come back.
Speaker 7: Eliah's story continues in episode ten, which is available now.
Speaker 7: Continue listening for free on Apple Podcasts. For full credits,
Speaker 7: check out our show notes. If you or someone you
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