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Part Three: Beria: Stalin’s Pedophile Cop & the Soviet Oppenheimer | BEHIND THE BASTARDS
Robert and Joe get into the meat of the Beria story: the invasion of Poland and start of World War 2.
Original Air Date: April 16, 2024
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2:50 – dial the "sun of nations" down a notch.
I used to steal my friend's water bottles out of his backpack. That was my psychopathic thing.
Damn you, Evans, uploading your podcast right when I'm about to go to bed and now I have to stay up another hour
I'm pretty sure that Herschel Walker is the least favorite Georgian who went on to commit crimes against humanity, or at least crimes against politics.
Re: the dwarf thing: My ex had a high school classmate who was a hair under 5 feet tall, dude knew the exact medical definition of "little person," which he wasn't, and would throw hands if anybody made fun of his stature. So yeah, I can see how the "homicidal dwarf" in this story earned the nickname.
The reason for using German weapons was twofold – one, Russian small arms tended to hurt your hands after repeated use, and there were a lot of people to murder.
The other issue was deniability- the whole thing was blamed by the Soviets on the Nazis. The Nazis did discover the massacre and told the world about it, which Stalin obviously denied.
It was only officially acknowledged by the Soviets in 1990.
Reminds me of a joke I heard back in the day.
A Pole is asked, "If Poland was invaded again by both Russia and Germany, whom would the Polish army fight first?"
"Russia, obviously."
"Why?"
"Duty before Pleasure"
La Friendly Birria, maing.
I feel like you could delved a little more into the sheer amount of genocide and ethnic cleansing Beria and the NKVD were responsible for. I know this scumbag was responsible for too much evil to recount all of them but still.
32:44 "Lepidopterists" someone clearly watched venture bros… No way Robert learned that word anywhere else
"I don't think anybody loves a good protocol quite
like the Russian Secret Police at any given era of time."
Underrated joke
Is this dude where the "Black Volga" urban legend came from ????
The winter war is a trip because you hear about all these badasses kicking the soviets' asses and think "hell yeah" then you remember they were kind of sort of Nazis, and you feel kind of bad.
No shade – but I do notice that whenever we’re covering complete atrocities in Europe – I never hear the phrase’ this was normal for the period’
I got so excited when this appeared in my feed! … and then I realized I listened to it as a podcast last night. Guess I need to get into Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff or It Could Happen Here.
I'm confused why Stalin would let Beria babysit Svetlana, while also warning her to never be alone in a room with him? I don't necessarily doubt that either thing happened, it just seems contradictory.
I love how even the fucking Guinness World Records people (who eagerly award records like 'biggest cake ever baked' or whatever to authoritarian dictators trying to do PR stunts, and who gave noted video game liar Tommy Tellerico a bunch of nothingburger records because he paid for them) looked at records like 'Most Prolific Executioner' and went, "yeah, we better retire this one."
Im glad we talked about ska this episode. It's been too long.
0:56 I mean I don’t know how Joe spells it but the band Kasabian would probably like a word
Man, what did Ska do?
Has there been an episode on Dole and the other fruit-companies? The banana-wars would make a good episode, in my opinion.
Does this mean we might see Robert on an episode of Well There's Your Problem? It was way fun discovering the connections to Some More News and Michael Swaim, but WTYP too? Hell yeah