Michael Malice

And he went after Jones.

He went after Marguerite, I believe.

No, he did go after Marguerite.

But the point being that this is just propaganda from people who want the Soviet Union to fail.

You know, they don't understand what they're building here.

You know, he had so many excuses like, oh, you know, the reason all these Russians are supposedly leaving their villages to go to the cities isn't because there's no food.

It's because they're nomadic.

It's tradition.

They go from town to town looking for new experiences.

And it's just, you know, at a certain point, and I think it was 1941, where he was eventually like, or 51 rather, I don't remember.

He was like, oh, well, I guess I was kind of wrong.

And he's like, any journalist worth his salt can admit when he's wrong.

And it's like, well, were you worth your salt?

Because he explicitly said, there's no point in sending out journalists to look for themselves.

I've been through the countryside and everyone's fine.

And it's just that the loudest people are making noise, whereas everyone else is doing the work and trying.

And this isn't about famine, but it's about Western skeptical about collectivization, which is just simply a new way of farming.

And yeah, it was a new way of farming and the results were by design and also accidentally absolutely catastrophic.

If my job as a journalist...

I have two bosses if I'm in Moscow.