The Truth about Communism, Gulags and the Left with Giles Udy

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Society & Culture, Politics

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🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Giles Udy is an English historian and the author of Labour and the Gulag: Russia and the Seduction of the British Left. Episode Sponsored by Ridge Wallet: https://www.ridge.com/TRIGGER Use Code “TRIGGER ” for 10% off your order Get TICKETS to TRIGGERnometry Live with Ayishat Akanbi here: https://leicestersquaretheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/873621622 Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	They would lock people in there, the doors were studied just like a cheese grater.
0:06.0	No food hole, studied just like a cheese grater.
0:09.0	Reason being, you want to bang on the doors.
0:12.0	They please let me out, I want you to let me out.
0:14.0	Your hands get torn.
0:16.0	I just thought, what is the refinement of cruelty that enables you to design something like this?
0:23.0	Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster.
0:33.0	I'm Konstantin Kissen.
0:35.0	And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.
0:40.0	We are delighted to have a brilliant guest for you today.
0:43.0	He's a British historian and the author of Labour and the Gulags, Russia and the seduction of the British left.
0:49.0	Charles, you did welcome to Trigonometry.
0:51.0	It's good to be here. Thanks so much for inviting me.
0:53.0	Oh, it's such a pleasure to have you on. I'm really looking forward to this conversation.
0:56.0	For anyone who's unfamiliar with you, your story, your work, tell everybody a little bit about who are you?
1:01.0	How are you where you are? What has been your journey through life that leads you to be sitting here talking to us?
1:06.0	Well, I had probably conventional middle class background.
1:10.0	I was shipped off to boarding school, spent 10 years there, messed up most of my time at school, like my A-levels.
1:17.0	Got to uni, thrown out of uni for not working hard enough when I just kind of drifted.
1:23.0	I drifted around, I did a few jobs, I ended up by working in the shipping industry for quite a while.
1:27.0	And I did a number of things over the years.
1:30.0	And that just continued a bit of this.
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