The Tom Woods Show, episode 637.

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Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

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Hey, everybody, what a delightful episode this one is going to be very, very interesting because we have a chance today to talk to Eugene Yelchen, who is an illustrator and writer of children's books. And we're going to be talking about his young adult book, Breaking Stalin's Nose, because it's a tremendous look into what life was like in Stalinist Russia. And look, I'm 43, and I read this book and

found it completely absorbing. And I'm still thinking about it. It's very, very well done.

And it won a Newberry honor, which of course is a very big thing. So I thought this is a definite.

We definitely want to talk to Eugene Yeltsin if I can possibly get him on the show, and I did.

Now, let me just tell you one quick thing in the first answer that he gives me is you'll,

there's a little bit of background noise. So we paused and I, uh, we

troubleshoot and figured out where that was coming from and got rid of it. So don't worry that

that's going to be going on through the whole episode. It won't. It's just in the first

response. All right. Eugene Yelchen, welcome to the show. Thank you, Tom. I'm happy to be here.

I am really happy that you're here. I don't even remember how I came across this book, where I read about it.

It's called Breaking Stalin's Nose. I just told people about it.

And it's meant for, I guess, a younger audience, but I'll tell you, I'm 43 years old, and I'm going to be thinking about this book for a long time. It really haunts me. The way you, and as I was telling you, I'm 43 years old, and I'm going to be thinking about this book for a long time.

It really haunts me.

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