Michael Malice

But this is a noble experiment.

But they're experimenting on a country, several countries.

So I think an ideology like this, which appeals to intellectuals, because if it works or if it's implemented, they're the ones who are gods, in effect, in a society.

Their status cannot be higher.

They really want this to work.

They want a society where...

they are the new aristocracy, the most important people.

And their criticisms of America, if they had a binary worldview, if America's bad and this is the opposite of America, then by definition, it's good.

And the other binary that they bought into is the Nazis and the fascists hate the communists and the communists, it's true,

up to a point, hated the fascists and the Nazis.

Okay, well, Hitler is evil.

So this guy's against Hitler.

We're with him.

So that's an argument that's still made in schools growing up when you talk about World War II where they're like, we teamed up with Stalin and they don't really talk about Stalin being a bad guy, but it's like, we worked with him to fight Hitler because Hitler was a unique evil.

Now that is certainly true that Hitler's a unique evil, but that doesn't mean or even imply that Stalin is somehow an angel or a saint.

I was so triggered because I was in the supermarket and there was like a company that's selling Russian ice cream because it meets these high level Soviet standards.

And I'm just like, you think this is some kind of joke?

You think this is some kind of kitschy punchline that you had decades of people who were taught in school to turn their parents into the police if they were hoarding grain, even if it cost them their own lives, where it was a crime to be married to someone who was an enemy of the state, where you had torture being the norm, where people were institutionalized because they were politically disadvantageous and they were called insane.

Like, this isn't just like, oh, this hammer and sickle is this cool, wacky symbol.

Like the amount of blood under this symbol was just enormous.