MSNBC Morning Joe March 31, 2022 10:16:00
Quickly as they were, because, of course, stalin had his show trials and had purges from the early '30s all the way through, you know, the end of the '30s into '40, '41 and continued to get rid of anybody he considered to be a source of power. a challenge to his power. we've seen that with vladimir putin as well. and so this is, as ian said, this is a problem with autocracies. you end up being lied to. i remember a story, reading history, a story when some of his advisers were showing stalin a map of europe, they talked about the netherlands and germany moving on the netherlands and he said, w...
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