Trevor Noah
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So 1993, I'm invited to Moscow.
Oh, here we go.
Soviet Union fell.
And they said, every cult from the United States is coming into Mother Russia.
And we want to, psychiatrists and psychologists, we want to understand what are cults and what is this all about?
Like they were experiencing cults coming in.
So the Soviet Union collapsed.
And the mental health people are like, what's going on here with all of these Western groups that are showing up?
So they brought me over.
They didn't pay me.
I paid my way and went to Moscow and I taught my work.
So I'm teaching about Chinese communist brainwashing and my model.
And they're like, Dr. Hassan, don't you understand?
You're describing the whole system of pedagogy of the Soviet Union.
And I said, uh-huh.
And they said, don't you understand?
We would put dissidents into psychiatric facilities because they were criticizing the regime.
And I'm like, uh-huh.