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  Herland Report: How to control a nation by fear: “Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator, creator of great power, and destroyer of tens of millions of lives …” Thus begins this episode of Uncommon Knowledge, which dives into the biography of Joseph Stalin. Professor at Princeton University, Stephen Kotkin, author of Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941, examines the political career of …

  Herland Report: Propaganda at a level we have not seen before? If you speak to young people today and say that the British empire positively formed the world, bringing solid institutions and organization to India, Africa, and the colonies, they will probably look at you in disbelief. Most of them know nothing about this period, about the rise of …