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▶ 36:23 Marc Andreessen The old Stalin thing, which is a single death of the tragedy million deaths is a statistic.

▶ 0:59 Marc Andreessen The creator of the concept of the five-year plan was, of course, uh, Joseph Stalin.
▶ 1:03:42 Marc Andreessen And actually, you know, the, the creator of the concept of the five-year plan was, of course, uh, Joseph Stalin.

▶ 56:26 Marc Andreessen the, out the door from Los Alamos that were gonna end up, you know, bad people's hands, you know, and one fear obviously was they ended up in Hitler's hands, but another fear was they would end up in, you know, Stalin's hands. 4 times in the scene
▶ 1:01:27 Marc Andreessen Uh, Einstein was Stalinist. 2 times in the scene

▶ 38:13 Marc Andreessen he was a socialist, and he was a Stalinist, and he was, like, well, he thought, like, Stalin was fantastic.

▶ 38:51 Ben Horowitz People love Karl Marx's intentions, but Stalin, Pol Pot, you know, Mao, like everybody died.

▶ 1:00:33 Balaji Srinivasan Or here's, here, here's another one, which is Durante, Ukraine, Amazon, like basically Stalin's apologist. 2 times in the scene
▶ 1:01:56 Balaji Srinivasan They're like, with, with the, with the Hall of Demore, there's actually a very clear cut case where Durante wrote 13 articles that basically said Stalin wasn't 2 times in the scene
▶ 1:16:09 Balaji Srinivasan Like, you know, that saying like how many divisions has the Pope, which Stalin would say, right?

▶ 22:41 Ben Horowitz And, you know, as opposed to, you know, in Stalin's Russia, where if Stalin didn't tell you to build it, you're not building it.

▶ 52:58 Marc Andreessen Like, so like being a literature professor in Stalinist Russia was like super dangerous.

▶ 36:59 Ben Horowitz Stalin was a crazy psycho or, or that kind of thing. 4 times in the scene

▶ 12:43 Marc Andreessen Um, and he was kind of pretty in favor of Stalin.
▶ 20:52 Ben Horowitz But this is a much better system, and look at all the happy people, and Stalin's a great guy, and so forth. 3 times in the scene
▶ 40:52 Marc Andreessen So then there was a flurry of anti-communist sort of energy in the, during that period where Hitler and Stalin were allied, and so there was sort of this abortive short little moment in the early forties, and then that 2 times in the scene
▶ 56:09 Marc Andreessen You know, we, I mean, look, people know, like, you know, China has been ruled by the Chinese Communist Party, you know, basically, you know, now for, since the 19 fifties, um, you know, the Chinese Communist Party is responsible for, you…
▶ 1:07:53 Ben Horowitz It wasn't Ceausescu or Pol Pot or Stalin or Mao or like, you know, there's a pattern here.

▶ 20:52 Ben Horowitz Um, you know, communism in practice ends up being, like, a massive concentration of power, uh, and Joseph Stalin was not a nice guy, and, and, and whatnot.

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