Savage Continent
“Barbarism is like the jungle; it never admits its defeat; it waits patiently for centuries to recover the territory it has lost.” - Will Durant
Episodes
13 episodes
The Soviet Ordeal Ep. 8 Follow the Science: History's Deadliest Fraud
When you think of the most deadly people in history the names that pop into your mind are typically your power hungry sociopaths... you know... Hitler, Stalin, Mao... Pol Pot. If you turn back the clock or know your history you might toss...
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2:55:39
The Soviet Ordeal Ep. 7 Follow the Science: Mind Control
You’ve heard the phrase “follow the science” or “science is real” over the past several years. Having “science” on one’s side seems to make a viewpoint authoritative if not infallible. The Soviet Union believed this wholeheartedly. Not only ...
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2:20:08
The Soviet Ordeal Ep. 6 The Holodomor
Stalin's plan to Collectivize the Soviet Union was finally in full swing. Peasants everywhere were being forced to abandon their antiquated bucolic lifestyles and become modern proletarians on large agroindustrial farms. Marx’s dream of “lab...
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2:19:59
The Soviet Ordeal Ep. 5 Collectivization and the Ukrainian Genocide
Stalin had big plans for revolutionizing the Soviet Union and nowhere where those plans bigger than Ukraine. 90% percent of the population in the republic were small time farmers who worked the same plots of land their ancestors ...
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2:08:19
The Soviet Ordeal Ep. 4 Stalin and the New Religion of Socialism
They say nature abhors a vacuum. By the late 1920's everything remotely traditional in Russian culture had been all but atomized. Churches had been dynamited, clergy were either dead, imprisoned or so marginalized that they were no longer relev...
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2:00:23
The Soviet Ordeal Ep. 3 Lenin's War Against Christianity
Marxists had always assumed the that Communism... when it finally arrived would be a perfect existence without religion. In the words of John Lennon :"Imagine there's no heaven... no hell below us, above us only sky." This had been a concept to...
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2:15:14
The Soviet Ordeal Ep. 2 Nihilism and the Revolution
Marx was fond of the phrase “Everything that exists deserves to perish.” Creating the shining future of communism meant destruction of the corrupt system of bourgeois capitalism. Like Marx, Friedrich Nietzche thought the western world’s moral s...
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1:17:56
The Soviet Ordeal Ep. 1 Karl Marx
To some he was a genius that gave hope to millions. To others he was charlatan that nearly led mankind to its destruction. Everyone agreed that he was a rebel that offered a savage indictment on the harsh realities of modern industrial society;...
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1:41:37
The Nuclear War Ep. 5 Staring Into Oblivion
Khrushchev finally makes what he believes will be his master stroke on the island of Cuba. If he can only get those medium range missiles operational in time all his bluff and bluster for the past 7 years will have paid off. But just when succe...
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1:33:47
The Nuclear War Ep. 4 Pushing All The Chips Forward
We all know Khrushchev has been fibbing big time but in 1961 it was big news. For eight years the world believed that the USSR had an arsenal so big that could demolish mankind in a matter of minutes. But what? What’s this? He’s been bluffing?!...
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1:39:25
The Nuclear War Ep. 3 The High Stakes Gambler
The Cold War kicks into high gear. Both sides now not only have fission bombs like those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki but now a new weapon thousands of times more horrible that there is no limit to its scope and size. Just a fe...
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