Red Dawn 9 - NEPman Stalin

The Eastern Border

Kristaps Andrejsons

Ukraine, Politics, War, Cold War, History, Ussr, Russia, Documentary, News, Soviet, Society & Culture, Gonzo

4.7 • 877 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2017

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Greetings, Comrades! I'll be honest with you - the previous week has been a living hell for me, I'm dealing with a dying grandfather, for whom I have to do all the paperwork while he's still here with us. And it's hard. And Alice has exam season. And Alice spilled water on her laptop, so I had to re-record the whole episode. And then, we had to fix some factual errors in our episode, as it turns out, some of the documentaries that we watched were literally based in nothing. But...we pulled through. We did our best, and clenched our teeth and did amazing things. Like the Soviet people, during the NEP era, when they finally got some opportunities to do some private enterprises. Or, like Stalin, who, even though, curbed all of those private business activities, nonetheless kind of represents the stereotypical NEP-man in the political world. He was shrewd, cunning, tough, witty and...indescribably selfish, evil and with no sense of honor or loyalty to his allies. But...in a way, that's how the businessmen in the NEP were, and Stalin probably has more in common with Ostap Bender and Voland than he probably had imagined. And I'll leave this long description at that, comrades. Enjoy the show!

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1:01.0	Thank you. Greetings, comrades. Sorry for the delay.
1:02.0	We do try the hardest to keep on on schedule though, but life sometimes just happens.
1:06.0	We are very thankful to all of our listeners here, and we had this great interview with Dan,
1:11.7	and we were on Tom Woods Show, which is amazing.
1:14.8	Not everything is terrible.
1:16.8	Only most things.
1:18.6	At any rate, this episode will be about the new economic policy, about power struggles
1:22.8	within the Communist Party during this period, and about how Lenin finally departed from
1:27.0	this world, and how Stalin,in finally departed from this world,
1:27.8	and how Stalin, our good old friend Stalin, or should I say Cobba, as we have known him before,
1:34.4	really started to take power.
1:37.1	But first, to get into the mood of things, a joke originating in this NEP era to start this off, obviously created in Odessa, where else?
1:47.0	Armenian Radio gets asked.
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