Dimes and Judas swing into a review of the book “Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II” by Sean McMeekin. An exhaustive exploration of Stalin’s agitation of international conflict for the Soviet Union’s benefit, it lays out a model for international relations that explains the role of Communism in the 20th century as much more realistically antagonistic. This leads into a discussion of the book “Building a Ruin” by Yakov Feygin. There they learn about the history of Soviet economic reform during the cold war, the market demands that handicapped their success, and how the Communist model was forced to cynically converge towards technocracy like everyone else.
Taken from Episodes #297 – You should do THAT THING to YOU KNOW WHO & #298 – A Very Special Sola GPTuah
Timestamps:
00:08 – “Stalin’s War” Discussion Begins
05:31 – Staling was Not an Aberration in the History of Soviet Leaders
11:49 – The Red Army and Soviet International as an Offensive Force
20:18 – The Nature of War is Everyone’s Getting Raped and Shot
24:45 – The Class-Against-Class Doctrine and Exporting Revolution
30:39 – Soviet Lebensraum
32:38 – Roosevelt Bullied by Stalin
39:30 – Stalin Refuses the Tripartite Act Unless Given All The Land
42:25 – The Lend/Lease Program that Saved the Soviet Conquest
47:26 – America was Already Infiltrated by Communist Agents Directing Action
51:21 – Discussions on How Much to Brutalize Germany
59:35 - “Building a Ruin” Discussion Begins
1:03:50 – The Left/Right Axis Inside the Soviet Union
1:06:56 – The STR and Technocracy
1:10:39 – The Necessity of a Large Consumer Market and Not Just Production
1:17:09 – Planned Obsolescence Supercharged by Central AI Planning
1:22:06 – Stalin’s Economic Model of Revolutionary Savings and the Middle-Income Trap
1:26:19 – The Spirit of Socialism Died First
1:29:15 – Economics vs. Politics
1:33:09 – The Suppression of Consumer Markets in Favor of Investing
1:37:03 – Central Committee Controlled by Economics who Never Started a Business
1:41:34 – The Soviet Theories of Value
1:45:53 – Japan Escaped the Middle-Income Trap
1:51:39 – Economic Cynicism Leading to Convergence Theory