Soviet Union, every mention

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▶ 2:02:37 Shane Parrish They planted a question through a Soviet gymnastics official, asking whether Korea was even financially stable enough to host the games.

▶ 22:51 Benedict Evans There's a fascinating book I read a while ago called Red Plenty, which is about Soviet central planning in the sixties, seventies, eighties.

▶ 11:16 Shane Parrish Under Soviet occupation, Hungary transformed into a communist state.
▶ 13:39 Shane Parrish What began as a student demonstration against Soviet control quickly escalated into a nationwide uprising. 4 times in the scene

▶ 1:05:46 Shane Parrish But the legal accusations were merely a vehicle for something deeper, a nation's fury at what they saw as Mellon's cold indifference to their suffering.

▶ 38:32 Christopher Davis The loss of American sort of preeminence and the Olympic boycott and the Soviets invade Afghanistan.

▶ 45:21 Jerry Colonna With the positive, reaching for the stars, creating something extraordinary.

▶ 34:23 Nathan Myhrvold Really, they, they, they see the United States or, uh, the Soviet, former Soviet Union, now Russia, as superpowers and nuclear weapons.

▶ 7:10 Balaji Srinivasan You can argue that this may be preferable to the status quo if you'd argue that the chaotic rush of the nineties was on balance better than the authoritarian Soviet Union of the nineties.
▶ 57:01 Balaji Srinivasan The Soviet newspaper is truth.
▶ 1:21:06 Balaji Srinivasan Woke America is to America as Soviet Russia is to Russia. 7 times in the scene
▶ 1:33:37 Balaji Srinivasan Now, the thing about this is that flippening is, I don't know if you've ever seen the maps of Imperial Japan at Zenith, or Nazi Germany at Zenith, or the Soviet Union at Zenith.
▶ 2:20:25 Balaji Srinivasan I think that if the last century ended up at least the second half was USA versus USSR, right? 8 times in the scene
▶ 2:35:05 Balaji Srinivasan And, um, the US plus UK plus USSR, it was like, you know, the UK, I think it was like, and the US and USSR were like one 50. 2 times in the scene

▶ 20:21 Stanley McChrystal American forces back to Germany when it was clear that the Soviet Union was going to be a Cold War adversary.

▶ 16:48 Marc Andreessen I mean, I, the most dramatic, the most dramatic way of thinking about how big of a change that is as sort of a global kind of macro level, um, is that, you know, the, the Soviet union, you know, there was this, there was this dissident… 6 times in the scene
▶ 24:45 Marc Andreessen There's 1984, which basically is the pessimistic view, which is like technology is used by the state, you know, kind of the full, the full kind of, you know, I don't know what the Hegelian like, you know, world state dominant, like…
▶ 1:06:25 Marc Andreessen It's gonna, it's gonna, it's, it's run exactly the same way education was run in the Soviet Union. 2 times in the scene

▶ 16:12 Robert Cialdini It occurred in the early 19 sixties, when the President of the United States was then John Kennedy, and the leader of the Soviet Union was Khrushchev. 3 times in the scene

▶ 1:19:36 Barbara Oakley It just, I remember when I, I used to work for the Soviets, and, um, so I was working out on Soviet trawlers, and, ah, we're getting drunk all the time, and all this kind of stuff, and, and you're just, it's all Russian, all the time. 2 times in the scene

▶ 1:38:08 Rory Sutherland So that actually gets down to a weird bit of Soviet propaganda with, it was actually intended, I think, as an anti-Semitic code word, but rootless cosmopolitan. 2 times in the scene

▶ 1:02:56 Venkatesh Rao It's an obscure little book of math and physics problems that was very popular in Soviet Russia and was very popular in India when I was, you know, studying for exams to get into university.

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