Soviets

4 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 26, 2019 by Kate Darling · across every show →

Everything said about Soviets, oldest first

Feb 26, 2019
Assertion Supported
Soviet WWII anti-tank dog program failed due to unpredictable animal behavior
“For example, the Soviets, they trained dogs to run under tanks, enemy tanks, and they had explosives attached to them, and they were meant to blow up the tanks. And a bunch of things went wrong. So, first of all, they had trained the dogs on their own tank, Wh…”
Kate Darling Feb 26, 2019 ▶ 24:38 a16z Podcast | To All the Robots I've Loved Before
Aug 2, 2023
Assertion Partly supported
Andreessen: Declassified records prove Rosenbergs passed bomb wiring instructions to Soviets
“What we know today is that they were guilty. What we know today is that specifically they were handling, I think it was their nephew, if I recall correctly, a guy, I believe his name is David Greenglass, and he was a technician. He was an engineer at the Manha…”
Marc Andreessen Aug 2, 2023 ▶ 53:24 Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
Aug 2, 2023
Assertion Contradicted
Andreessen: Soviet egalitarian biology was a primary cause of famines
“And so the Soviets developed their own egalitarian biology, which, by the way, was one of the big reasons for all the famines.”
Marc Andreessen Aug 2, 2023 ▶ 47:21 Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
Aug 2, 2023
Assertion Partly supported
Andreessen: Soviets created the term 'anti-fascist' as communist propaganda
“The term anti-fascist was created in that era, right, actually by the Soviets as a propaganda term to basically, you know, kind of mean communist.”
Marc Andreessen Aug 2, 2023 ▶ 23:59 Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
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