I came across a series of videos on Youtube by somebody called Anatoly Wasserman (I am transcribing this to the familiar German spelling of the surname) as I was following some technical links.

The awesome thing about this person is that he speaks Russian very slowly and very clearly. I watched one of his videos. He's looking clearly into the camera and smiles a lot as he talks. In fact; he gives the impression of being a rather interesting, likeable and probably intelligent person...

The interesting thing is that he's uploaded no less than 183 videos to Youtube, on mixed topics! The setting for the videos appears to be his own house. Unfortunately I don't understand enough of what he's saying, because my vocabulary in Russian is too limited!

But I am wondering: Who is this man? What't the purpose of his Youtube channel? I wish I could understand more of what he's saying.

One of his lectures was clearly about the history of computing, with a focus on Russia / USSR. But he's also mentioning philosophical and political terminology a great deal which makes me wonder if he's got some kind of political message? Or is he just a scientist or some kind of natural philosoper?
I can't resist a mystery and this man is quite interesting!

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