Gabriel Custodiet speaks with economist Peter Boettke about the details surrounding the Soviet economy that Lenin, and then Stalin, attempted to create in their utopian hubris.

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TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 2:00 – What were the first things Lenin did? 7:00 – Did the Soviet economy work initially? 20:35 – Shortage economies 22:15 – Removing sex roles affects Soviet economy? 27:10 – Did the USSR have its own military-industrial complex? 28:30 – Any interesting statistics come out of USSR? 32:35 – Did Trofim Lysenko kill 55 million people? 35:50 – Did the US fight on the wrong side during WWII? 37:35 – Why is von Mises so important? 44:00 – Is economics itself the problem? 51:45 – Poland and Estonia

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