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Adam Curtis

Headliners with Nihal Arthanayake

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The Importance of Suffering

The Russians have a phrase which they call it West Blaining. What they mean by that is it's like man's Blaining. It's the West explaining Russia to them. I'm always very dubious about people in the West going on about the Russian soul because I think that sort of falls into Westblaining. My feeling about it is that really what the Russians had gone through in the 20th century, and this is me West Blaining, is what communism developed into was a planned system that became absurd. The original idea of the revolution was that the workers would rise up and they would be transformed as human beings,. By 1928, they disappeared. And what was replaced it, especially

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