Why didn't somebody just kill Stalin?

 Playing the Dragon back against the Bear

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New episode with Stephen Kotkin, Stalin biographer and historian. No other individual had more of a profound impact on the 20th century than Stalin. He held the power of life and death over every single person across 11 time zones, and he killed tens of millions of people, utterly consumed by an ideology aimed at building paradise on Earth. And he was one-half of the biggest and most consequential military confrontation in history (even if Hitler didn’t prove to be his match). 0:00:00 – Was the tsarist regime the lesser of 2 evils? 0:24:38 – The peasants brought Lenin to power, then he enslaved them 0:38:31 – Why did so many go along with enforced famine and the Great Terror? 1:03:19 – Today's leftist civil war 1:13:54 – Doesn’t CCP deserve credit for China's growth? 1:36:06 – Why didn't somebody just kill Stalin? 1:53:38 – Overcoming the pathologies of communism with tech: USSR vs China

CALLS FOR A NOVO SINO-SOVIET WAR!