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We're you, Welcome to the Russian rulers history podcast

episode 91.

Khrushchev grows up.

Sorry for missing last week's podcast, but the strain of moving the family home was just too

great and I had to take the week off.

That won't be happening for a while because I'm going into surgery

tomorrow morning to repair a torn Achilles tendon and I've got to be laid up for a while and guess

what kind of books are going to be next to my bedstand along with my friendly

notepad and computer I'll be writing lots of scripts because I won't be able to do

very much else for the next week or so. So you're not going to be

missing out on anyone episode for a while. But I also want to thank one of my

listeners Stephen for the comment he made on episode 72 entitled Comrade Lenin,

We Hardly Knew You. He stated that I had, quote, not just an anti-Lenin and Soviet bias, but anti-socialist bias as well.

Well, I could say I'm guilty as charged, but with a bit of a caveat here.

I understand that my family was forced out of the country because of the revolution.

My mother was hunted down by the communists in the last stages of World War II,

and I lost an uncle, likely in a gulag after the war, so the scars run kind of deep.

Also, millions of people died of starvation due to the ideals of developing a so-called socialist state in Russia. And many of these people really didn't need to die.

And why do I say so-called?

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