Oleg is pampered and an elite. he benefits form the corruption and is worse than the corrupt minor functionaries he is going after in that he is a hypocrite as well.
His family almost certainly is eating the food no one else can get, he and his dad are drinking some booze likely no one else can get, out of gold painted…

I think Tuan sees Phillip and Elizabeth as weak.

Not just a question of the show painting them. This was a reality.

Oleg blew his interrogation with KGB counter intel. He let slip he knew William was in Washington area while claiming he never heard of him or the op.

I think Henry's discovery will have more to do with Tuan

Americans doesn't even come close to Fargo for subtlety intelligence and creativity.
And the Jennings behavior is "occasional villainy"? They are full out villains. Supporting the most murderous state in world history is deep seated villainy.

That is ridiculous. precisely were does the current administration even differ from the Bill Clinton administration on those points?

Disagree. They have Oleg nailed already from the interview were he was caught in a couple of obviously lies. He said he has never heard of William, William's operation whatsoever. But somehow he knew William was caught in Washington?

the fact that a couple of episodes ago beemans office held out penetrating the courier system as the holy grail, and then gennaddi just drops the fact that he is a currier is too much.

Oleg already outed himself when he showed he knew where William was located after saying he had no idea as to anything to do with William.
Oleg made about three mistakes in that interview.
But this father is not going to lay off saving him.

Glorias boss is actually one of the few rational characters. You forget that the plot is highly irrational.

yeah, pretty cheap characterization device by the writers. One of the few dumb appeals to PC

AV club gets it wrong on so many levels, eg:
Varga: “A chicken is an egg’s way of making another egg.” (Like all great con men, Varga uses the pretense that there is no one actual “reality”—it’s all a matter of perspective—to make it easier to bend others to his will.)

In the US if you commit suicide with a gun, the press says the gun is the cause. If you commit suicide another way, the symptoms are cited as or implied as the cause.

Tuan is playing a double game with someone. the scene was too reminiscent of the tone, lighting and many aspects time when they wrongly killed the guy at the bio-lab. I think this mirrors that episode, except this time they let the wrong guy go.

stan has no moral high ground anyway

Yeah but Turner was a complete fool eliminating near 1,000 officers positons and operations personnel in his four year tenure 77- 81.

she betrayed the US. And she is worse than most traitors because she had specifically agreed not to as part of her employment

And people can simply be spies without being highly trained illegals.
Chris' dad could simply be being blackmailed or paid — or not her dad. huge numbers of Americans spied for the soviets without being these kind of long term deep cover officers born in russia.

Well, your guess that they would have shoved her out of a plane makes more sense. I agree that would be more realistic.
Well known spies who defected were treated well to encourage others. but she was not an intentional spy and it would do the kgb no good to showcase her., she is an example of a life ruined.