Michael Malice

That's what I think.

You can't say anything.

My fuckstick.

So what Stalin did very cleverly, Stalin was, he worked the system, but he was very much in the background.

And what he did better than Trotsky is he was much more of a politician.

He was a glad hander.

He made friends within the party.

He made people feel respected and appreciated.

And Lenin trusted him.

When after Lenin's stroke, Stalin was basically the one who was keeping track of him.

Lenin asked Stalin at one point to kill him because after the strokes, he was incapacitated.

Stalin talked him out of it.

At the same time, Lenin was like, if I need someone killed, this is who I need to talk to.

Stalin, if you look at photos of him when he was young, he was a stud.

He was a gangster.

He was a bank robber.

And he basically worked the system.

And you had the Trotskyites on one hand, who were much more to the left.

Stalin's big...

I would call it a heresy, was he put forth the idea of socialism in one country, whereas we're just going to make it work here in what became the Soviet Union.