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#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Stalin Evil? Or Are You Deluded?
I'm almost interested to extract lessons from that for leaders of today. Like how hard is it? Is it that Stalin is evil? Or can you just delude yourself gradually into where you don't have a sense of the effect of your policies in the populace? I think the receipts are when Elena Ceausescu, who's one of the four women on the cover, when she's being taken away to be executed in 1989,. So she at least believed her own bullshit. With Stalin, he was obviously extremely intelligent. At a certain point, the human mind wants to believe how great it is, especially someone in that vaunted position.
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