Soviet Union
5 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Aug 2, 2023 by Marc Andreessen · said 168 times in 54 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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2019 25 mentions in 17 episodes 1 per episode
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2018 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Soviet Union, oldest first
Aug 2, 2023
Andreessen: Venona Files Proved Extensive Soviet Espionage in U.S.
“In the 19 nineties, there was this, ah, this event happened, which was the declassification of a set of intelligence files from the National Security Agency called the Venona files, and it turns out that American intelligence had bugged Soviet military intelli…”
Aug 2, 2023
Andreessen: Soviet famine was direct result of Lenin killing productive Kulaks
“For anybody who wanted to see it, the catastrophe of communism became visible very quickly. Because when Lenin took control of the Soviet Union immediately fell into a devastating famine, which was the direct consequence of basically killing the Kulaks, which …”
Aug 2, 2023 neutral
Horowitz: U.S.-China disentanglement is far more complex than Soviet decoupling
“The disentanglement will be much more complex this time in the sense that you know, the Chinese supply chain to the United States is, Dramatically more robust than any economic connection that we ever have with the Soviet Union.”
Aug 2, 2023 negative
Andreessen: Albert Einstein held pro-Soviet and pro-Stalinist views
“Einstein, unfortunately, and I know Einstein's, a lot of people consider Einstein to be a hero, not just scientifically, but morally, and the movie paints him as a, both a scientific and a moral hero, which is kind of the received wisdom. A little bit of an is…”