Bloodlands

This book by Timothy Snyder has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Lex Fridman, Noah Feldman. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2022-07-21 and the most recent from 2022-12-15. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

Americans call the Second World War "The Good War." But before it even began, America's wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens -- and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans.