Michael Malice

And Stalin, of course, was Lenin's successor.

At first, there was a triumvirate running Russia as Lenin was recuperating from strokes.

Then very quickly, not very quickly, but gradually, and then suddenly Stalin became an absolute dictator and he had a series of purges and so on and so forth, which solidified his control over the country.

Right.

So, I mean, that's something I talk about in The White Pill as well.

When things start going wrong, they always have to have scapegoats, right?

And there's this Russian anecdote, you know, what the Russians like to do is you can't say things out loud, but if you make jokes, you can say unspeakable truths.

And there's this one anecdote where there's a Russian leader and things are going bad.

And he looks in his drawer and there were two letters from his predecessor.

And he opens the first letter in a panic and the letter says, you know, for advice, and the letter says, blame everything on me.

So he goes out there and he's like, Oh, my predecessor sucked.

He was terrible.

Blah, blah.

It's his fault.

And everyone's like, okay.

And then there's a calamity again.

And he's like a crap.

So he goes back at his desk and he reads the second one and it says, sit down and write two letters.

So when things start going wrong, as they constantly did throughout the history of the Soviet union or any, you know, totalitarian authoritarian country, it's someone has to be the blame since we know that,

that our ideology is true and scientifically true.