In his interview with Dugin, Tucker presents Dugin as a "Soviet dissident," misleading his viewers from the start. In reality, Dugin's father was a lieutenant general in the GRU, the foreign intelligence agency of the USSR Ministry of Defense. He got him into the prestigious Moscow Aviation Institute (yes, he doesn't even have a philosophy degree). The myth about his engagement in dissident activities was launched by Dugin himself in the 90s to create the necessary image for his own public profile and there is actually no evidence of it. No public activity of Dugin is known before the Perestroika, when political activism and freedom of speech were allowed. He also invented the story that he worked as a janitor and this fictitious fact, which was refuted by his acquaintances, unfortunately found its way into Western sources about him. In reality, Dugin lived a bourgeois lifestyle as a privileged child of the Soviet nomenklatura, wrote lyrics for a faculty rock band, which led him to join the Satanic Yuzhin circle and then to the "Pamyat" party, thus beginning his public career during Perestroika and, as can be assumed from his background, in close contact with the security services and providing them with information on regular activists. Pavel Zarifullin, head of the Eurasian Youth Union, who knew Dugin closely, said the following about him: "He always saw ideologies as a means for his personal career growth. He always wanted to get into the establishment, he considered himself part of it. [...] he always knew that genetically he was a member of the elite..."