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Michael Malice - Stalin: The Devil That Won’t Die & Why The West Fell In Love With Communism

Aug 23, 20251 hr 1 minSeason 1Ep. 101
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Michael Malice joins The Winston Marshall Show for a blistering conversation on socialism, Stalin, and why the West never learned the right lessons from the 20th century’s bloodiest ideology.


Malice, born in Soviet Ukraine, dismantles the myths of socialism’s “good intentions,” exposing how Western intellectuals and journalists excused gulags, famine, and mass terror in the name of progress. From the Fabian Society’s wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing origins to the New York Times’ whitewashing of Stalin’s crimes, he shows how elites twisted reality to protect their ideological faith.


They discuss the post-war consensus, the West’s obsession with fascism while downplaying communism, and the uncomfortable truth that socialist ideas keep returning—whether through Bernie Sanders in the U.S. or Jeremy Corbyn in Britain. Malice warns that socialism isn’t just a failed experiment but a recurring temptation for societies in decline.


All this—luxury beliefs, starvation by design, media complicity, and why the socialist dream refuses to die…

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

2:28 Historical Apologia Towards Stalin

8:09 Critique of British and American Left-Wing Figures

15:54 The Legacy of Stalin

41:29 The Impact of World War II on Russian Perceptions

58:13 Closing Thoughts

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