Lenin did these horrible things. He was a monster. We have a 16-foot bronze statue of him.

It was interesting for me to comment on this because of what I perceived to be the selective outrage on the left.

The other person then turns, looks me dead in the face and says,

I think some of that violence was necessary.

Would we tolerate a statue of Hitler for even one second?

I think everybody knows the answer to that.

So why do we have a statue of Lenin?

Two hours later, I received another phone call that began with the words I believe effective

immediately and that was that.

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Click the membership link on the podcast description or find the exclusive episodes link on your for us for us and then I read more to the story and disappointingly you actually

didn't defend Hitler so it's it's been a let down all round. Welcome to the show

tell us your story. Thank you for having me on.

Yes, that's correct. I'm actually the deeper you look I think into my bio I think you'll find I'm probably the last person you could possibly imagine throwing that accusation at. That's what they all say.

Sure. I was, I spent a good part of my career leading up to this situation covering

genocidal violence genocidal rape the I when the war in Ukraine broke out I flew over to the border to write about the refugee crisis that was going on there.

I've covered the Tigrayan genocide and I wrote specifically about how I think that it wasn't getting the

attention that it deserved because of racism which is quite a something that actually the

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