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Response to Oliver Stone
May 25, 2022
Lex Fridman
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Stephen Kotkin is a historian specializing in Stalin and Soviet history. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
2:19 – Putin and Stalin
13:09 – Putin vs the West
36:01 – Response to Oliver Stone
47:07 – Russian invasion of Ukraine
1:26:35 – Putin’s plan for the war
1:34:33 – Henry Kissinger
1:40:28 – Nuclear war
1:51:01 – Parallels to World War II
2:13:47 – China
2:21:55 – World War III
2:29:24 – Navalny
2:33:41 – Meaning of life
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