Michael Malice

So they're eating by themselves.

Let's design buildings so everyone has to share bathrooms.

Like their whole plan

was to have eliminate any kind of concept of privacy at all.

They also had this bizarre kind of radical idea of like attacking shame.

So many of these, you know, before the 1917, people were also very involved, like free love, because the idea of like having this private bond between husband and wife was also bourgeois and old fashioned.

And, you know, we're the society of the future that changed relatively quickly, but they were talking about things like raising kids communally and so on and so forth.

So for Stalin,

If you and I are friends, we have a bond.

That's a threat to him.

The family's a threat.

Any kind of organization is a threat because it's a power center that is not a relationship between you and him.

Now you have a relationship with somebody else.

So he systemically...

went through that whole society and it became, there were certain things that became a crime, then it became a crime to be a spouse of the enemy of the people.

Now, right away, I as a child become an orphan because my dad was an enemy of the people, my mom is married to an enemy of the people,

Now I don't have parents.

They get arrested or executed or whatever.

But now I have nowhere to go, but I can't go to my friend's house because their family doesn't want to take in a child at the enemy of the people.

You had this culture where everyone was very much encouraged to turn people in.