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Serhii Plokhy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1125 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

You want to see this in images, visible, right? But the question, again, I just mentioned KGB marching in and some party leader giving a speech. They were not given that speech, but the sense was there and it was in the air. I, as people of my generation who were there, knew that and recognized that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

You want to see this in images, visible, right? But the question, again, I just mentioned KGB marching in and some party leader giving a speech. They were not given that speech, but the sense was there and it was in the air. I, as people of my generation who were there, knew that and recognized that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

But for new generation, whether they are in Ukraine, in Russia, in US, in Britain, in Zimbabwe, anywhere, you have to do these little untruths and introduce them. I had a very interesting on-air conversation with

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

But for new generation, whether they are in Ukraine, in Russia, in US, in Britain, in Zimbabwe, anywhere, you have to do these little untruths and introduce them. I had a very interesting on-air conversation with

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

But for new generation, whether they are in Ukraine, in Russia, in US, in Britain, in Zimbabwe, anywhere, you have to do these little untruths and introduce them. I had a very interesting on-air conversation with

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

the author of the script amazing and I asked him the question of the film declared really the importance of the truth but how do you square that with the need in the film to really put it mildly to go beyond the measures of truth whatever understanding of that term is

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

the author of the script amazing and I asked him the question of the film declared really the importance of the truth but how do you square that with the need in the film to really put it mildly to go beyond the measures of truth whatever understanding of that term is

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

the author of the script amazing and I asked him the question of the film declared really the importance of the truth but how do you square that with the need in the film to really put it mildly to go beyond the measures of truth whatever understanding of that term is

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

Yes, I wrote a book on Chernobyl and then tried to understand Chernobyl better, but placing it in the context of other disasters as a historian and was looking at the political factors and social factors and cultural factors, not the physics or engineering part of the story. And the factors that are still with us are the

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

Yes, I wrote a book on Chernobyl and then tried to understand Chernobyl better, but placing it in the context of other disasters as a historian and was looking at the political factors and social factors and cultural factors, not the physics or engineering part of the story. And the factors that are still with us are the

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

Yes, I wrote a book on Chernobyl and then tried to understand Chernobyl better, but placing it in the context of other disasters as a historian and was looking at the political factors and social factors and cultural factors, not the physics or engineering part of the story. And the factors that are still with us are the

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

like it was the case in Chernobyl, the authoritarian regimes, right, and high centralization of the decision-making. And desire to cut corners and also the issues associated with secrecy. So that is with us. If you look at where the future of the nuclear industry is now at this point, it's the regimes and parts in the Middle East. That's a big new frontier.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

like it was the case in Chernobyl, the authoritarian regimes, right, and high centralization of the decision-making. And desire to cut corners and also the issues associated with secrecy. So that is with us. If you look at where the future of the nuclear industry is now at this point, it's the regimes and parts in the Middle East. That's a big new frontier.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

like it was the case in Chernobyl, the authoritarian regimes, right, and high centralization of the decision-making. And desire to cut corners and also the issues associated with secrecy. So that is with us. If you look at where the future of the nuclear industry is now at this point, it's the regimes and parts in the Middle East. That's a big new frontier.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

The countries that are not particularly known for the history of democratic existence. where we also have the situation that we had at Three Mile Island, that we had at Chernobyl. This is the first generation engineers, nuclear engineers, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

The countries that are not particularly known for the history of democratic existence. where we also have the situation that we had at Three Mile Island, that we had at Chernobyl. This is the first generation engineers, nuclear engineers, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

The countries that are not particularly known for the history of democratic existence. where we also have the situation that we had at Three Mile Island, that we had at Chernobyl. This is the first generation engineers, nuclear engineers, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

So people where the country doesn't have a lot of experience in generations after generations working in that particular industry, where it's all new, that is certainly an additional risk. What we got now with this current war is something that, not that people completely didn't expect, but didn't happen in the past. You see the war coming to the nuclear sites.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

So people where the country doesn't have a lot of experience in generations after generations working in that particular industry, where it's all new, that is certainly an additional risk. What we got now with this current war is something that, not that people completely didn't expect, but didn't happen in the past. You see the war coming to the nuclear sites.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

So people where the country doesn't have a lot of experience in generations after generations working in that particular industry, where it's all new, that is certainly an additional risk. What we got now with this current war is something that, not that people completely didn't expect, but didn't happen in the past. You see the war coming to the nuclear sites.