#444 – Vejas Liulevicius: Communism, Marxism, Nazism, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler

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🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 218 minutes

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Vejas Liulevicius is a historian specializing in Germany and Eastern Europe, who has lectured extensively on Marxism and the rise, the reign, and the fall of Communism.
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(08:48) - Marxism
(36:33) - Anarchism
(51:30) - The Communist Manifesto
(1:00:29) - Communism in the Soviet Union
(1:20:23) - Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin
(1:30:11) - Stalin
(1:37:26) - Holodomor
(1:51:16) - The Great Terror
(2:04:17) - Totalitarianism
(2:15:19) - Response to Darryl Cooper
(2:30:27) - Nazis vs Communists in Germany
(2:36:50) - Mao
(2:41:57) - Great Leap Forward
(2:48:58) - China after Mao
(2:54:30) - North Korea
(2:58:34) - Communism in US
(3:06:04) - Russia after Soviet Union
(3:17:35) - Advice for Lex
(3:25:17) - Book recommendations
(3:28:16) - Advice for young people
(3:35:08) - Hope

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Wejaz Lulevicious, a historian specializing in Germany and Eastern Europe.
0:08.0	He has lectured extensively on the rise, the rain, and the fall of communism.
0:13.4	Our discussion goes deep on this, the very heaviest of topics, the communist ideology that has
0:19.5	led to over 100 million deaths in the 20th century.
0:24.0	We also discuss Hitler, Nazi ideology, and World War II.
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1:15.2	Speaking of peak performance, I'm trying to figure out in my life
1:19.2	how many times a week to train Jiu-Jitsu. There's a long stretch of my life where Jiu-Jitsu was a big part of my life.
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