Michael Malice

I don't know.

I'm not saying he's a good person, but it's kind of insane that someone can do things that everyone listening to this would regard as pure evil.

And at the same time, this guy also, when the time came, saved tens of thousands of lives.

And Khrushchev in – it was in 56 when he gave a secret speech behind closed doors, and he's just like, all this criticism of Stalin was true.

This is completely not what Marxism – he tried to salvage the system.

This is not what Marxism is about.

We can't have a personality cult.

Stalin killed all these top generals.

And when Hitler betrayed the pact and invaded, Stalin didn't believe his buddy Hitler was going to do this.

And as a result of this, we lost a lot of territory and lives.

This is not a military genius.

This was Stalin being an idiot or a moron, whatever term you want to be.

So, you know, yeah.

But the thing is, Khrushchev also was a butcher.

You know, he had a lot of blood in his hands.

You don't become, you know, take Stalin's seat without having overlooked a lot of murder and chaos.

So...

it's such a, that's why it's called, the subtitled book's A Tale of Good and Evil.

There's so much malevolence to go around.

Well, you're not deluding yourself because you have around you an entire government of people telling you 24-7 how great you are, how thankful they are for you, how awesome you are, you're the best.