he troubleshooter for stalin. now the new secretary of the central committee of the communist party of ukraine. khrushchev falsely our political positions well known. we have held and hold the position of nonintervention in the affairs of other country. example of finland november 30th 1939. grossly violating their non-aggression pact of 1932 russian planes without warning or provocation bomb helsinki signaling the red army's ruthless aggression some 400,000 displaced bombs moved their positions by every possible means of transport nation. the 8 million finns are heroic in the defense of their freedom against 170 million russians. but the soviets war ends with the ceding of finnish radio to russia. the example of latvia. also in 1939, under soviet latvian borders are forced open. on promise of friendship. moscow gets bases. on june 16, 1940. the soviets issue an ultimatum submit to occupation or be attacked. on june 17, the red army and direct violation of the previous treaties. then to complete the occupation of

, stalin and mao witnessing. example of korea. world war ii ends with the northern part of korea in hands of soviet troops. united states and soviet representatives meet. but they're not interested in a free korea, but are determined to bring all of korea underneath their domination. the 45th parallel, hearing of the liberty and prosperity below the line come to the new republic, fleeing the communist peoples republic. june, 1950, unprovoked, an invasion was launched of south korea by north koreans. russian. the united states acts quickly the lettering on this tank however, is russian. koreans to cease their unprovoked attack. the directive ignored t the united testates acts quickl to check the red aggression. subsequently, the united nations issues a directive to cease their attack. it's ignored. the united nations asks for additional military strength. red china enters the war, allying with the north koreans. military setbacks and rising world indignation prompt stalin to direct mao to initiate peace talks in k

stalin and mao witnessing. world war ii ends with the northern part of korea in the hands of soviet troops. the united states and soviet representatives meet in seoul to reach agreement on unification for korea. but it becomes clear that the russians undergeneral the general are not interested in a free and united korea but to bring the entire country under communist domination. koreans north of the 38th parallel, the boundary line between free and communist-held korea hearing of the liberty and prosperity existing below the line, come in thousands to the new republic fleeing the autocratic republic. unprovoked and without warning a ruthless, bloody invasion of south korea launched by north koreans. [ sound of gunfire ] >>> the lettering on this tank, however, is russian. north koreans to cease their unprovoked attack. the the united states acts quickly to check the red aggression. subsequently the united nations issues a directive ordering the north koreans to cease their unprovoked attack. the directive is ig

josef stalin's actions? that's an excellent question about if marx got on in his time machine, what would he have thought if he showed up? i think part of it is when would he have shown up? would he would he would he have been in the gulag himself or would he have been in a party meeting where he talk about the very important ways in which we are spreading communism? that to me would be a big question to this. would he know everything? would he know what lenin, who idolized him had done? would he would he say, okay, yes, i want communism so much. and i did say i did say i wrote it. i wrote it that there would be violence necessary is this what i meant? now that part, i don't know. but there is so much in marxism as an which really helps lenin do what he does and stalin do what he did and mao do what he did and all the others that we can talk about. so, you know, he might be proud some ways for what he would have, you know, contributed to. have you ever seen communism adopted by a majority of a country's peop

stalin doesn't die until '23. stalin was very good at this. so, he is -- one of that famous quotes of his where whoever occupies a territory will impose his social system on it. that is what stall lynn is doing. so, the soviets, the red army, they hold onto what they liberated, right, in world war ii and they then impose communism in so many of those countries. and they only don't impose it where there is pushback. so, the policy, the strategy of containment that the united states develops under president harry truman is so very important because people don't realize that countries like greece and turkey and iran and palestine, all of those could have easily been communist after world war ii if not for the strategy of containment. instead communism has to settle for romania, bulgaria, hungary and poland and czechoslovakia and the eastern part of germany. of course, the soviets want more of germany. they push, they try for it. they're rebuffed later in the 1940s, and multiple times. 1950s, 1960s, they still want to do more on germany. and then

and you can go back you can go back to stalin. stalin's vision of the postwar world, which was supposed to be based on some kind of a great. and you, norman, you have written extensively about this. you know about this very well. and and. at the same time. you later soviet leaders as well for sure creation of the also treasured this of being seen as american pardon the same time this is not the only thing that you domestic legitimacy because you can equally be as the chief adversary of the united states and that also has a legitimating aspect consider this you know if america recognizes us their main enemy. that means your important. that means you're important and you can project that image of importance to your allies, to your clients, to your domestic audience, and so on and so forth. and they'll give you i'll give you an example of this. actually, i will. i will give you a few examples from the book, which i think are interesting, but starting from this country addiction and what the soviets trying to project, there's a fantas

hands in the hands of stalin's totally to the end of life. sakharov maintained that giving the soviet union nuclear weapons was a critical step towards peace because it created the balance of mutual destruction that the most dangerous thing you could have was when company had a monopoly. one country, excuse me, had a monopoly on nuclear weapons. so he was not wracked by guilt. he was, however, disturbed at the loss of control over the weapon once he had successfully tested it. and there's a famous scene, which i in the book of sakharov being the guest of honor at banquet celebrating the first successful test of the soviet hydrogen bomb. this is in, i think, 1955 or six. i forget the exact date. and sakharov, who has led a rather closeted sort of the rarefied world of theoretical physics in moscow and elsewhere, he gives the the honorary first toast and those of you who know russia a little better know know that giving a good toast, serious business in that culture, a very highly developed art form. and the title of my book to the success of o

and it happened under stalin's watch as the atomic bomb did in his path to dissent from his loftiest of positions in soviet society he had every privilege and honor the could imagine from a private driver to this high-frequency telephone and a very nice -- where he and his family. he was so valuable the soviet union didn't allow him to travel on airplanes. this assumption that he was the soviet oppenheimer positioned as sokoloff wracked by guilt place to enhance his successors totally wrong. the end of his life sokoloff maintained that giving the soviet union nuclear weapons was a critical step towards creating a balance of mutual assured destruction. the most dangerous thingng you couldha have when one company -- one country had a monopoly on nuclear weapons. he was not wrackeds by guilt. he was however disturbed at the loss of control over the weapon once he had successfully testedd it. the famous scene which i recounted in the book of sokoloff being the bet guest of honor at a banquet celebrating the first successful test of the soviet hydrogen bomb. there were five or six and sok

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so you know, as noam chomsky said, you know, joseph goebbels and joseph stalin, they were all for free speech. if you agreed with them. so the free speech, the stuff that they don't like and, it has to be all of it. and it's messier. but, you know, once you start getting into people's feeling that they you're protecting people who gets to decide what free speech is. so i think it's a pretty simple thing. it's all of it or none of it. and i'm for all of it. from your book in human history ability for humans to have free unfettered speech is remark doubly short rare and for very privileged few. that's true. i mean, if you look at the history of humanity, there's not been a as a real sustained time for this individual particular liberty. and there is there is a reason why founding fathers in the united states made it the first amendment. they could have made guns first, but they seemed to think they wanted to arm the citizenry with something that they could truly defend themselves. and that's with their ability to stand up against potential tyranny and actual tyranny from own government.

well aware of how important, what books would be in wartime, it's inevitable that the dictatorships stalin, hitler would be equally aware of the need to command print for their cause. we see in the second world war an enormous amount of looting. on the left we see a post with nazi officials sorting books have been taken. it says revolt, not fear. in fact, that's telling. in in estonia. and so books were first of all in the first years of the war the states that the germans conquered. first of all poland. there was a great destruction of the intent to reduce poland to agricultural population with no elites. so education was to be largely and their books were all taken away. but then the policy changed. and because the nazi regime, germany was meant to be a force. and you're right, they thought it would be best to keep the books of all the adversary ideologies they were seeking to extinguish, so that if any point join thousand years, they needed know about socialism or judaism or free masonry, they'd have books to hand. and here they plan to create ten libraries of 500,000 books each. this t

call them fascist and nazi and stalin lovers and tell them they're stupid on top of everything else.y are sexist and racist. these people live in their echo chamber so closed off from where the rest of the country is they have no idea they sound so crazy part of the makes it laugh and at least that midler pledged to drink bleach after donald trump wins and then deleted her account. i don't like her that much but it's going to be okay you don't need the bleach take good care of yourself. and professors at harvard canceled classes after the election because out of sheer grief we have snowflakes all over the country others are coping with the loss of joe biden and loss of harris by throwing biden under the bus even though they are the ones who forced him out of the race and dismissing millions of voters that put them in place when it was clearly a coup she got not one primary vote. they also ignore the millions of people in their own party. frankly joe biden was all smiles congratulated trump and invited him to the white house and thanked harris for giving it her all but it doesn't appe

made because during the war there was a famous battle of stalingrad and stalingrad was named after stalin and the battle was won of the most brutal battles in the history of modern warfare because not only was he named after stalin. it was on the way to the oilfields. if the got the city they would get to the oilfields and they'd have all the oil they needed for theirso machinery and they wantd to have access to their oilfields. early on they got reports that there were cholera outbreaks which happens in just about any word. once you destroy the infrastructure and the water enter mixes and there were all sorts of things in this case it was cholera. they knew they needed to stop it because once people started getting sick sick people can't fight. so they sent russian microbiologist there to check what was going on. she got there with maybe a tiny bag and saw it was happening and said immediately people are gettingow sick. the train never made it. there was nothing left. so she said okay we are going to do it ourselves. we are going to grow them underground or bombs can't get us and we will

the argument can be made because during the war, a very famous battle of stalingrad, named after stalin, one of the most brutal battles in the history of warfare, modern was ite because not only named after stalin, but it also set on the way, if the germans got the city they would get to the oilfield,to and of course e soviets didn't want it to happen. they wanted to have access to their oilfield. early on in the battle, reports of power outbreaks in stalingrad which happens just about any war but once it is destroyed, the infrastructure, water and sewer and all sorts of things, they knew they needed to stop it. once people started getting sick, nobody -- they sent a russian microbiologist to check what was going on. she got a tiny bag of phages, we need phages immediately, people are getting sick. and the train never made it. there was nothing left. she said okay, we will do it ourselves. we will go to the river, find a bunch of phages and growth underground. we are going -- on a regular basis, they did. very basic equipment, a bunch of hoses, very basic equipment and produced enough p

modern warfare, because not only was named after stalingrad, i have to stalin, but it also set on the way to the oil field of the caucus. so if the germans got the city, they would get to the oil field and they would have all the oil they needed for the war machinery. and of course the soviets didn't want that to happen. they wanted to have their access to their oil fields and early on in the battle, the moscow got the start some reports of there were cholera outbreaks in stalingrad which happens just about any war. once you start destroying the infrastructure your water and you sewer they intermix and there you go. people start falling with all sorts of things. in this case, it was cholera. and so they needed they knew

writing when nazi germany, when britain is fighting a war against nazi germany, he's writing during stalin's reign in the soviet union and he's very conscious of how political is manipulated in those regimes, but also how it's manipulated at his own home in britain, the context of the british empire. i mean, he worked in the british empire. he served in the imperial, and he felt that there that censorship, you know, in the british empire was astringent, stringent as it was in many ways in the soviet union. how would you describe his politics? as we understand politics, politics today? well, he termed himself democratic socialist throughout his life. he was identified strongly in his time. the political left, though, ironically, once he passed away because his novels became iconic text of the war, he was reappropriated frequently by the political right in a cold war context and continues to seen by many on the right, a kind of icon of free speech and an opponent of censorship. but his own politics were very firmly leftist. two more passages from your book it's 150 page, 150 and 153 two senten

caller: my question would be, didn't dictators like stalin, mussolini, chavez, orban, the first thing that they do when they come in is purge elected civil servant officials. they purge them, they replace them, they ensure loyalty like what is going on here, they maintain control through intimidation and surveillance. how do you think that president trump's actions compared, and do you see any direct parallels with his treatment of the civil servant, especially loyalty tests and firing officials, using the government for personal and political gain? that is my question. guest: so, that is interesting, because certainly what these over a century now of civil service law is trying to prevent is that kind of system. what -- there are two different things going on here. the efficiency commission that vivek ramaswamy and elon musk are leading are talking about getting rid of employees altogether. not necessarily replacing them with loyalists, just shrinking the size of the federal government. that would give more influence to the political appointees at those agencies, but would also mean

they compare trump to adolf hitler, joseph stalin, mussolini. they said he would cause world war three. they blamed him for covid. they openly fantasized about going him going bankrupt from lawsuits and throwing him in jail, you know, by the weaponized doj of harris and biden or anyone else that, you know, they didn't like and they wanted to cook up charges against, they celebrated when his home was raided for the very things that hillary clinton and joe biden did. and when his mug shot was posted online, they dreamed about a future locked up at rikers island or some other horrific jail, joking about blowing up the white house. remember that or joking about, quote, assassination. not a funny joke, not a funny comment, and some even expressing disappointment that his would be assassins were not successful. they told all of you that trump was evil, a threat to democracy. but on tuesday, most americans. but we're just a bunch of garbage, aren't we? didn't give a about the narrative, breathlessly pushed day in and day out by the state run media mob.

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it's essentially what stalin did, except stalin just did it by force. done with lawfare instead. price average like private people out of owning farms so the government can just take them over. >> oven >> well, it does look very cynical , doesn't it? cynical, doesn't it? >> well, i mean, there's one take on this which i wish the messaging is definitely wrong because the people who are trying to defend it are saying that there is an inheritance tax loophole, which if you've got an absolute ton of money, you can put it in land and then pass the land on without having to pay any inheritance tax, find a way of if that is your motivation, find a way of closing that loophole. i always say this with loopholes stop moaning about them, close them. and if this is trying to close them, well, no, you must realise the way you're closing it is going to get farmers genuinely working the land court in this. there must be a way to stop rich people just buying land to pass on land to sell it later on or whatever it is, find outlaw it, or do something rather than this whi

stalin took russian fertility for granted.joke, you know, he said, look, don't worry about the people we're sending to die. we'll replace them. but at the moment there's a huge war going on. they're hitting an economic crash. they're living under, you know, this, this brutal and increasingly authoritarian dictator. that's not the ideal, you know, situation to bring children into the world. >> but it's a really good question. what is the ideal south korea has a fertility rate about 0.78 now. now they live in an absolute like capitalist utopia. there's an extraordinary amount of buoyancy economically. they have everything they want. just don't have many gardens and parks. but that's obviously not ideal parks. but that's obviously not ideal. russia isn't ideal. britain at the moment doesn't seem to be ideal. america isn't ideal. seem to be ideal. america isn't ideal . australia is probably as ideal. australia is probably as close to ideal as anywhere, but even they're struggling to keep it up near two. >> i think we just we just

i thought maybe this was josef, stalin had moved into the white house. this smacked of the kind of stuff that used to take place in the soviet union under solid. and now the united states is doing it. i mean, the irony of this is rich united states like to sit back and accuse russia being an authoritarian state. yet, here we are allowing this woman who's a patriot, who's a survey member of the us military, to be accused of being a terrorist in a center in a way just to smell her. because if she was actually involved with plotting or planning terrace x, they would have arrested or they didn't do that. this was entirely about creating a smear. and to use, uh, just just use that narrative in order to try to dirty her off. i mean, it's really, though this is filthy stuff that's going on here. yeah. well, well, you know, tell us to go to somebody, created plenty of control overseas with their options in the pause, for example, to travel to syria, to me, presidents of sancho, she was a member of us congress that was in 2017 and more recently she's, we posted r