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#301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There Something About Being an Honest Revolutionary?
In the case of Stalin, it seems like he really believed that communism would bring about a much better world. I mean, there was a sense, you have to crack a few eggs to make an omelet. And then the other aspect is sort of ruling by terror, creating terrorism, justify political mechanism to achieve a better world. So it wasn't, I mean, perhaps he had to do that to be able to sleep at night with their atrocities. He's committing. The terror didn't start with Stalin. It started right after the Bolsheviks took over when Lenin told Mr. Jizinski, Kamarot Jizinski to build a checker and then execute the red
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