Study Guide
Mentions in Episodes:
- Episode: Part Three: Beria: Stalin's Pedophile Cop & the Soviet Oppenheimer | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Podcast: Behind the BastardsAnd I'm going to continue with a quote from Amy Knight's book here: "The most important economic activity of the NKVD was the construction of roads, railways, waterways, and power stations. Some projects were undertaken directly by the NKVD, and some by Gulag workers contracted out to other commissariats; mining of gold and non-ferrous metals and lumbering were other key areas of production for the Gulag."
- Episode: Money Laundering in The Shadow Economy | Miles Johnson
Podcast: The Jordan Harbinger ShowYada yada, the book focuses initially on how the DEA got its jurisdiction expanded to terrorism and financing, which I know sounds super in the weeds, but I was quite interested.