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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Revolution, Fear, and Power: The Unseen Threads Connecting Stalin’s Russia to Modern America

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

News, Debate, The Hartmann Report, Economics, Thom Hartmann, Democracy, Climate Change, Congress, America

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

America’s billionaires — along with the rest of us — should be every bit as frightened of the avatars of fascism like Trump, Bannon, and Orbán as they are of the ghosts of the long-dead USSR...

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Revolution, Fear and Power. the unseen threads connecting Stalin's Russia to modern America.

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Louise and I just finished watching the extraordinary Showtime series, A Gentleman in Moscow, which takes place in the years and decades

1:14.6

immediately after the Russian Revolution of 1917. A wealthy aristocrat, he was

1:20.1

a count, is basically imprisoned in the Metropole Hotel in Moscow and has a front row

1:25.8

seat to observe how the well-intentioned revolt against the excesses of the Roman dynasty

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turned into a brutal dictatorship, ultimately headed by a sociopathic

1:35.2

Joseph Stalin. The banality of evil. It flashed me back to the 1960s in a number of

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