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if you haven't already returning to the podcast is richard poe to discuss his awesome new book i've got

the digital version here how the british invented communism and blamed it on the Jews.

It's been a little over three years since we last spoke.

Welcome back, Richard.

Thanks, Savoyah. Great to be back.

It's great to have you. I love your work.

As always, just finished the book yesterday.

Highly recommend it.

Go out and buy it, the physical version or the digital.

And yeah, if we just want to start, what brought you to write this book and tell us a bit about the thesis before we dig into some of the details.

Well, I've had a lifelong interest in the topic of the Russian Revolution and especially the Russian Civil War,

simply because my grandparents lived through that. My father's parents were Jews of the former

Russian Empire, and they both left their homeland in the early 20s.

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