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Historian Alexander Kolpakidi and Vladimir Lizun, who worked in the offices of Gromyko and Gorbachev They examine the mechanics of the demise of Soviet ideology. Mikhail Suslov privately acknowledged that the party apparatus was cluttered with careerists, but he flatly refused to initiate a purge, acknowledging his impotence before the nomenklatura. Stalin saw Ponomarenko as his successor, not the old guard, but the elite feared the new generation and placed their bets on Khrushchev, whom no one took seriously. And an inconvenient question of our time: why did Soviet leaders send their children to the front, while today's elite does not.

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Timecodes:
00:00:29 — Introduction. Guest introduction: Vladimir Lizun and his experience working in the USSR's highest political bodies.
00:03:25 — Announcement of Alexander Kolpakidi's "The Black Book of Zionism" and the hidden mechanisms of Western media.
00:07:33 — The astonishing story of Rector Semivolosov: how city committee secretaries tried to take away a blind veteran's apartment for his mistress.
00:11:03 — Escape from the local NKVD and a surprise meeting with Stalin in the Kremlin: "You're a true communist!"
00:14:20 — Khrushchev's negative selection: how the General Secretary ruined the brilliant metallurgist Tevosyan, who created the best tank armor.
00:24:20 — The decay of the party apparatus: why chief ideologist Mikhail Suslov refused to carry out a salutary purge of the party.
00:28:18 — Who Stalin was grooming as his successor: the leader's secret bet on the young Ponomarenko, bypassing Molotov and Mikoyan.
00:33:08 — The fatal mistake of Stalin's comrades: why the old guard underestimated the "jester" Khrushchev.
00:43:37 — United Russia vs. the CPSU: Kolpakidi on ideology, modern elections, and the children of the elite hidden from the front.
00:51:37 — The death of the best: how the loss of 4 million ideological communists in the Great Patriotic War broke the party.
00:58:26 — Insider's view of the family: how little Vasily Stalin accidentally wounded his father with a gift rifle and how the leader reacted.
01:01:54 — The bureaucratic abyss: why modern leaders don't read analytical reports and how Stalin worked with information.

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