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#248 – Norman Naimark: Genocide, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Absolute Power

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Are We Too Good at Telling the Stories of Atrocities?

I have this hope that within most, if not every human heart, there's a kind of like flame of compassion and kindness and love. And I think it's just too easily doused in a lot of people. We carry with us a really potentially nasty mean streak that can do harm to other people. You know, how is it that we're still facing this business of genocide? It should have been eliminated long time ago.

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