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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 133 The Last Soviet Defector?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2014

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Yuri Maltsev, economist and Soviet defector, discusses life in the Soviet Union..

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0:00.0

I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.

0:09.9

In a world of conventional confusion, there will be time for them to make profits.

0:14.9

Now's not that time.

0:16.4

Daddy, what do taxes pay for?

0:18.2

Oh, why everything?

0:19.7

Policemen, trees, sunshine.

0:21.9

Let's not forget the folks who just don't feel like working, God bless them.

0:25.9

Don't be afraid.

0:26.7

I'll be afraid.

0:28.3

Prepare to unshackle your mind.

0:31.2

An idea who his time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government.

0:36.9

Your professor has arrived.

0:41.0

Tom Woods.

0:42.3

Well, his mind is not for rent to any government.

0:46.9

Beware, citizen, you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion.

0:52.3

The Tom Woods Show.

0:56.2

Welcome, everybody. It's Monday, April 7, 2014, and what a program we have for you today.

1:02.8

What a story we have. What an insightful story we have, courtesy of our guest, Yuri Maltsev.

1:10.0

Uri Maltzv defected to the United States from the Soviet Union in 1989.

1:16.5

He had been an advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev's government, and what a story it is.

1:23.6

And it's not just a story.

1:25.1

Also, we're going to talk about life in the Soviet Union, things that we just can't ever be allowed to forget.

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