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

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The Leap to Mass Murder

"It's too easy to say sometimes it happened because it had to happen that way," he says. "I'm of the school of that emphasizes, you know, contingency and choice and difference." He adds: "History is a wonderful discipline and way of looking at life in the world in retrospect"

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