Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2024-04-16
Books mentioned on Part Three: Beria: Stalin's Pedophile Cop & the Soviet Oppenheimer
Robert and Joe get into the meat of the Beria story: the invasion of Poland and start of World War 2. See omnystudio.
Robert Evans discussed Study Guide, Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder, and Stalin and Europe by Timothy Snyder and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Study Guide
Study Guide by SuperSummary is a reference resource that breaks down popular literature and historical non-fiction.
Discussed“This passage from Amy Knight's book gives good context on how brutal some of these arrests tended to be and just the sheer level of bullying that dominated them, right?”
Where to get it
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Bloodlands
Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder is a historical examination of the mass killings and political atrocities committed by the regimes of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin in Eastern Europe during the mid-twentieth century.
Discussed“as Timothy Snyder lays out in this passage from bloodlands lenti Baria had come to a conclusion perhaps inspired by Stalin Baria made it clear in writing that he wanted the Polish prisoners of War dead”
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Stalin and Europe
Stalin and Europe by Timothy Snyder and Ray Brandon is a harrowing historical examination of the devastating mass killings, state-sponsored violence, and human suffering that occurred in the borderlands between Germany and the Soviet Union during the twentieth century.
Discussed“as Timothy Snyder lays out in this passage from bloodlands lenti Baria had come to a conclusion perhaps inspired by Stalin Baria made it clear in writing that he wanted the Polish prisoners of War dead”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“you need 10,000 hours of torturing to get really good at it that's what that Malcolm Gladwell book is about”
“He needs on-the-job training, you need 10,000 hours of torturing to get really good at it, that's what that Malcolm Gladwell book is about, if I'm remembering it properly.”
“I'm also an author; I’m currently in the middle of writing a military science fiction trilogy, and you can find it anywhere you find your books. It's called The Undying Legion!”