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I am sharing this here for anybody who may be curious. The following message is from an e‐mail that Prof. Furr recently sent to me:

Dear friends:

Mr. Tristan Pennell interviewed me on Tuesday, April 26 (2022) concerning my research on Joseph Stalin and the falsehoods and lies of Stalin-era scholarship. […]

He posed five questions about Stalin and Stalin-era research. The interview is 2 hours in length.

In case you'd prefer to listen to it in sections, I have marked the times where a new question and answer begins..

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Here are the questions Mr. Pennell chose to ask me.

Start (my answer begins at 1:35) - Stalin’s coming to power & the subsequent conspiracies/attempts to remove him with forgeries of Lenin’s writings

10:58 - The reality of collectivization - how it was actually a real reform that led to a dramatic bettering of living conditions for the peasantry, food security for the country, and also allowed for rapid industrialization.

22:29 - Trotsky being exiled, Yezhovshchina (mainly how it wasn’t Stalin’s “terror” but a plot to stir up discontent between the people & the party) and how the Stalin leadership eventually caught and crushed this plot.

32:41 - The truth about the Purges and how it wasn’t Stalin removing his political opponents as the anti-communists say, but actual threats to the country.

1:09:47 - The next topic is one I think is important, & that is the democratic legacy of Stalin. His anti-bureaucracy/pro-democracy movement, his work on the 1936 constitution & how even without having everything Stalin wanted, it still nonetheless was the most democratic constitution in the world.

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I would appreciate any criticisms or other comments you might care to make. Good, intelligent criticism can only help me improve my research.

video debunking class collaborative "representation" as a path towards real change

Video is about an hour long (around 58 minutes).

I looked at his activity on the same day as the tweet and I reckon he is talking about tendencies like this in the subreddit.

Just wanted to say that that sub is pretty garbage. And I tend to avoid it like the black plague. But it's nice to see that a non-ML YouTuber doesn't hesitate in praising existing socialist countries. The usual behaviour is to shy away from this to cater to the anarchildren audience.

Video is:

29:35

Listening to Comrade Elishuva right now.

Duration: 57:36

I'm thinking of rebooting my YouTube channel.

However, I don't know if I should have a Patreon or IndieGoGo or what.

I'm pretty strapped for cash and I'm only now getting a job after some time (a pretty good one, it seems, too).

But all the same: I'm pretty much poor.

Should I leave a place where people can make donations to me? I'm trying to be financially secure.

Not that I wouldn't do the video channel for other reasons, but I feel that I don't have much of a choice.

Is it okay?

Best talk I've ever heard.