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Thu Feb 11, 2021, 10:00 AM

Mike 03 (16,616 posts)

40. Totally agree

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Although I do think with Ian Tolle, Christopher Browning and Timothy Snyder (and Anne Applebaum and Stephen Kotkin--at least on Stalin) we are catching up.

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104 replies	Author	Time	Post
John Meacham finally goes there on Morning Joe. [View all]	catbyte	Feb 2021	OP
Read that book more than 45 years ago and pulled it out to read again about 6 months ago.	Solomon	Feb 2021	#1
I did the same. I've been reading now Dmitry Volkogonov's Stalin, less well known, but...	NNadir	Feb 2021	#10
I'll have to look that one up.	thucythucy	Feb 2021	#55
Volkgonakov is an interesting guy. He was a Soviet Col. General charged with psychological warfare.	NNadir	Feb 2021	#61
Wow! Now I have to look him up!	thucythucy	Feb 2021	#63
"In The Court Of The Red Tsar" is also fascinating (can't remember the author) . . ..	hatrack	Feb 2021	#97
It sounds like an interesting read from the reviews.	NNadir	Feb 2021	#99
I have to tip my hat to The Death Of Stalin as the ultimate in black comedy . . . .	hatrack	Feb 2021	#100
Apparently Stalin introduced Beria to Roosevelt and Churchill...	NNadir	Feb 2021	#101
Incidentally, if you're never read "Dark Sun" by Richard Rhodes, it's well worth your time	hatrack	Feb 2021	#102
I read the first, but not the second.	NNadir	Feb 2021	#103
And as applied to your last sentence . . . .	hatrack	Feb 2021	#104
Trump is a lot like Hitler	Turbineguy	Feb 2021	#58
For which fact we are most thankful.	niyad	Feb 2021	#62
+1	live love laugh	Feb 2021	#65
Indeed!	Turbineguy	Feb 2021	#69
in both cases radio played a huge part both times but RW talk radio will croak w/limbaugh before	certainot	Feb 2021	#68
Limbaugh may be hard to replace	Turbineguy	Feb 2021	#70
Wow	dianaredwing	Feb 2021	#79
school system will be a lot easier to fix, like all major issues, when rw radio dies	certainot	Feb 2021	#96
RW propaganda radio will be replaced by Incel Neckbeards with podcasts. The Next Generation. nt	Progressive Jones	Feb 2021	#91
not same. unlike radio, social media, podcasts etc are like TV - part of the free speech spectrum	certainot	Feb 2021	#95
Hitler failed in his first coup attempt, too.	wnylib	Feb 2021	#85
Hitler was pretty incompetent too	Joelteply	Feb 2021	#89
Me too for the same reason, also Berlin Diary, fascinating reads	Hortensis	Feb 2021	#81
Conspiracy... the movie HBO 2001 ... about the ' final solution ' meeting	SayitAintSo	Feb 2021	#84
Conspiracy was excellently done	AdamGG	Feb 2021	#88
Check out Mank...	SayitAintSo	Feb 2021	#98
People need to listen.	North Shore Chicago	Feb 2021	#2
We are not out of the woods yet....	HUAJIAO	Feb 2021	#27
True. The 74 million who voted for Trump are still with us.	CaptainTruth	Feb 2021	#74
This message was self-deleted by its author	HUAJIAO	Feb 2021	#30
DUers have been writing that for years	malaise	Feb 2021	#3
Great DUers stood up to warn us.	Kid Berwyn	Feb 2021	#9
+1	Celerity	Feb 2021	#11
Most excellent	malaise	Feb 2021	#18
There is also a movie based on the book. I used to show it to my students.	3Hotdogs	Feb 2021	#19
Thank you for posting this n/t	solara	Feb 2021	#51
YEP !!	uponit7771	Feb 2021	#53
Good summary	burrowowl	Feb 2021	#59
Would you please post this as its own OP for visibility, and so we can rec it? Thanks.	niyad	Feb 2021	#66
Here's the thing, though.	cilla4progress	Feb 2021	#92
Thank you, Malaise!	Mike 03	Feb 2021	#12
I don't deserve another heart	malaise	Feb 2021	#20
I'm so glad you supported this view from early on.	Mike 03	Feb 2021	#29
Well people are finally waking up	malaise	Feb 2021	#32
It's not rocket science	soldierant	Feb 2021	#93
Excellent point	malaise	Feb 2021	#94
I've not thought of that book for many years, but at 4AM, hearing him merely say the author's name	hlthe2b	Feb 2021	#4
I've posted that here for five years	PCIntern	Feb 2021	#5
He said he's resisted using the parallel for 5 years, but after yesterday, can't any longer.	catbyte	Feb 2021	#6
Thinking people always resist being blunt	PCIntern	Feb 2021	#7
Politeness is the face of a threat can be lethal.	SallyHemmings	Feb 2021	#13
Meachem feels the need	Springerjjhicka	Feb 2021	#15
Oh, I've thought of the parallels the past five years, for sure. Just not that specific book	hlthe2b	Feb 2021	#31
I started listening to it in 2016	genxlib	Feb 2021	#8
The cult will never believe the danger they inflicted.	Boomerproud	Feb 2021	#14
That's because their not human.	Butterflylady	Feb 2021	#48
Oh but they do! Their intent was to bring about eternal Trump rule.	Blaukraut	Feb 2021	#60
Almost happened, definitely will	Eid Ma Clack Shaw	Feb 2021	#16
Steve Schmidt said it bluntly	Tom Rinaldo	Feb 2021	#28
PBS's The Rise of The Nazis	HootieMcBoob	Feb 2021	#17
+1	llmart	Feb 2021	#37
The importance of TRAFOTTR	localroger	Feb 2021	#21
This is another excellent book by Shirer:	catbyte	Feb 2021	#25
Excellent context.	Mike 03	Feb 2021	#26
Kicking	Mike 03	Feb 2021	#22
All authoritarians follow pretty much the same playbook...	Wounded Bear	Feb 2021	#54
Brits do WWII right, there is also Alan Bullock's Hitler A Study In Tyranny	bucolic_frolic	Feb 2021	#23
Totally agree	Mike 03	Feb 2021	#40
Read it the summer after graduating high school.	lastlib	Feb 2021	#24
"Democracy is not important" said Mike Lee	1cheapbeemr	Feb 2021	#33
Is this the quote?	58Sunliner	Feb 2021	#42
To me, the most disturbing are those who ignored what was happening around them.	BarbD	Feb 2021	#34
This quote has resonated with me since 2016:	catbyte	Feb 2021	#36
It is chilling, but very true.	BarbD	Feb 2021	#41
+1	llmart	Feb 2021	#43
+1	dalton99a	Feb 2021	#47
Bookmarking	liberalla	Feb 2021	#35
Read it in the 9th grade. I always wondered what it would be like	kairos12	Feb 2021	#38
But, a Republican that actually wants to read a book	mrsadm	Feb 2021	#39
I read it twice.	rickford66	Feb 2021	#44
Yep. I listened to that audiobook 6 months ago.	Hassin Bin Sober	Feb 2021	#45
You could make a case for every bogeyman available.	gordianot	Feb 2021	#46
The Big Lie	Desert_Leslie	Feb 2021	#49
We may think that the origin of the phrase is common knowledge,	Oldem	Feb 2021	#78
It seems to me that republicans in the Senate realize that if they vote to convict DJT,	Mr. Evil	Feb 2021	#50
History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme...	Wounded Bear	Feb 2021	#52
The problem is...	johnnyfins	Feb 2021	#56
knr	triron	Feb 2021	#57
I struggled through it	VA_Jill	Feb 2021	#64
Agree 100%	Joinfortmill	Feb 2021	#67
K&R	Roisin Ni Fiachra	Feb 2021	#71
I agree with the idea that the circumstances are different.	BobTheSubgenius	Feb 2021	#72
I've referred people to this for several years. I'm on my third reading (read it every 25 yrs)	SharonAnn	Feb 2021	#73
Also, read "The Authoritarians". It's free on the Internet. Good explanation of MAGA thinking.	SharonAnn	Feb 2021	#75
Learning from history	Oscarthegreat	Feb 2021	#76
I'm reading "The Rise and Fall" right now	PlanetBev	Feb 2021	#77
The reason people are loathe to go there is that the standard argument is . . .	peggysue2	Feb 2021	#80
Read it many years ago.	moondust	Feb 2021	#82
My biggest fear is that if Trump is acquitted a much smarter and cagier president in the future	Nitram	Feb 2021	#83
I've said several time the path to understanding Trump	Dan	Feb 2021	#86
And Willie Geist called them cowards.	Lunabell	Feb 2021	#87
Trump and his acolytes were itching for their own Reichstag.	summer_in_TX	Feb 2021	#90

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