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Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Anne Applebaum
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Anne Applebaum
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This book by Anne Applebaum has come up 3 times across 2 different shows: Diary of a CEO, Lex Fridman. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Anne Applebaum, Lex Fridman, Michael Malice. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-12-31 and the most recent from 2026-05-11. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“I wrote a history of the Ukrainian famine. I wrote a book this is this is a book about how the Soviet Union took over Eastern Europe.”— Anne Applebaum
The guest here is Anne Applebaum: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Atlantic staff writer specializing in authoritarianism, the Soviet Union, and the decline of democracy. Author of Gulag, Red Famine, Iron Curtain, and Twilight of Democracy; married to Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski. Pulitzer historian Anne Applebaum lays out the five tactics autocrats use to dismantle democracy and warns America is sliding toward them.
“thank you for recommending that to me so um her work's amazing yeah it's it's a really really powerful uh book”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Michael Malice: Anarchist author, podcaster and online provocateur known for books on North Korea, the American fringe, and anarchism. Here he is releasing The White Pill, his history of 20th-century communist atrocities and the hope of their undoing. Lex and Michael Malice mark his book The White Pill with a darkly funny, costume-clad deep dive into Soviet evil and hard-won hope.
“anne applebaum I think the book is called red famine came out fairly recently and she brings the receipts”— Michael Malice
The guest here is Michael Malice: An anarchist political thinker, author, and podcaster who wrote Dear Reader (on North Korea) and The New Right, and hosts the podcast 'Your Welcome.' Known for blending dark humor with dangerous ideas. Anarchist author Michael Malice argues the good guys can win, makes the case for peaceful secession, and trolls Lex with knock-knock jokes throughout.
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