How Bernie Sanders Fell for This Soviet Trick (Pt. 3) | Konstantin Kisin | POLITICS | Rubin Report

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to “TRIGGERnometry’s” Konstantin Kisin about what really happened at his viral Oxford Union speech “Woke Culture Has Gone Too Far”; why we are brainwashing our young into a victim mindset; how Bernie Sanders was tricked into believing in the false promises of socialism by one of the oldest tricks of the Soviet Union; and much more.
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[@Anne_Onymous]

What about the full interview with KONSTANTIN KISIN?

[@The-Mstr-Pook]

I'd much rather listen to the full interview than these shorts. Why not release that first then give people the option of the condensed version 2days after? So where's the full one of this interview?

[@jamesgaddis6189]

Bernie Sanders uses the idea of Socialism to manipulate ignorant, gullible people; in order to amass a small fortune. Bernie Sanders has five mansions, by selling Socialism as a solution. Also, how Obama got 100 million dollars from a job that pays less than $500,000 a year for eight years (less than $4 million before taxes/expenses). Socialism is easy to sell, it's dreams and fantasies. I'll give you hope, but no solutions. I'll give you promises, while redirecting the blame.

[@wonkawilly5573]

"you cant be woke and build something" 💯 So true

[@WillyBraggTV]

Ret@rded partisan dribble & utter BULLSH!T.

[@Kath-N]

Bernie Sanders is totally clueless about economics. Anyone who takes Sanders seriously should be educated in economics and history.

[@docsavage8640]

The problem is his followers are generally as arrogant as he is and think they already know all they ever need to know so they don't listen/read/learn.

[@nickmitsialis]

@@docsavage8640 If my bolshy relatives from overseas are any indication, they all think they're going to be in charge of things (they had this image of wearing the hat with the red star and waving around the Makarov pistol as they deal with class enemies) they never think they're going to be 'grunts'.

[@radagast7200]

Imagine being so ideologically blinded you fall for the ol' potemkin village bit.

[@alfredoprime5495]

Selection bias and confirmation bias. The alternative is to have everything you are and everything you believe in crumble around you and too many people are not strong enough to even look in that direction.

[@daveruckert7926]

Bernie: I'm a socialist, but you should pay $95 to attend my anti-capitalism event.

[@vas-87]

Lol. Pure hypocrisy of the opportunists fake communist.

[@noobsaibot5285]

He was a socialist, and a communist, but now he is enlightened. Now he is a democratic socialist😅

[@TheDuckofDoom.]

It is always good to keep in mind that "capitalism" is a nonsense strawman label primarilly owned by socialists for propaganda. I avoid using it to describe decentralized economies.

[@wheel-man5319]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 True

[@myles3856]

@@noobsaibot5285more like a Discount social Democrat

[@ReggieJohnAgain]

When I was in college in 1970 I picked up a disdain for capitalism and the U.S. I carried that grievance around until I went for the first time to the land of my ancestors, Poland, in 1982 during martial law which was instated by the communist government because of the threat to the establishment by the popularity and success of the anti-communist Solidarity movement. What I saw cured me once and for all of any romanticization of communism/socialism, and gave me a new-found love for the USA. When I hear people today praising socialism/communism I want to ask them just how much experience have they had in living in or observing that ideology. When the toilet paper crisis flared up in 2020 at the beginning of the totalitarian lockdown I recalled how toilet paper was in constant shortage every time I returned to Poland throughout the 1980's. There's obviously some kind of deep connection between socialism and toilet paper.

[@amythompson7700]

Please, please, please speak loudly about your experience, because our people Don’t understand. I lived in a commune for a couple of years in my youth and the lockdowns were a dejavu for me. People thought it was funny when I told them, but just Maybe it sunk in later?

[@mathewhale3581]

Aye. They’re both full of shit?

[@morganmadison366]

There's usually no toilet paper in Cuba. 60 f***ing years, and the government can't put toilet paper in the stores.

[@Lodgiefitness]

😂 the toilet paper remark got me good

[@sharonkay8638]

The link between toilet paper and communism rolled me up! Can I steal it?😂

[@acktuwally]

Bernie "bread lines are a good thing" Sanders

[@patrickdaly5068]

And there are too many brands of deodorant.

[@kay2kin92]

Mikhail Gorbachev once asked Margret Thatcher, "how do you know, how much Bread to bake each day ?" I don't, was her reply!

[@LisbonLion7]

@@kay2kin92 she was more of an expert on issues regarding soft scoop ice cream.

[@nonyadamnbusiness9887]

Nailed it. Woke is an adolescent level movement. It's a group of people who never moved past being spoiled brat teenagers.

[@dannysullivan3951]

Define woke

[@daskalman]

Bernie is living proof that age doesn't equate with wisdom for leftists.

[@ShadyCool]

That would be a valid criticism if Bernie’s economic and fiscal policy positions had wrecked the national economy and budget over the past 50 years. Alas, it is the free market/Conservative/Libertarian crowd (aka Bernie’s critics) who are wearing that historical anchor of incompetence around their necks along with the ones their like-minded ilk earned for causing the Great Depression and WWII.

[@josephgallacher3729]

Champagne Lefty Bernie.

[@hannachumakova1086]

As a person who lived in the totalitarian USSR for 25 years I stand behind every word of Konstantin. BTW looks like Konstantin mentioned writer Theodore Dreiser who visited USSR in 1927. One of his notes says, "I think the Russians do nothing but eat, and I am getting the habit."

[@Chesapeakepuppy]

Konstantin Kisin is awesome. More please!

[@WillyBraggTV]

less please, he defends Ukraine littered neo-N@zis in the military & government...

[@skepto-o-punk8286]

Let’s be clear. That Oxford speech actually belongs in the same category as anything Lincoln, JFK, MLK or any other historical orator ever uttered. It should be required listening for every student of every age, at least once a year until they’re off into the job market. It is a profound masterpiece !

[@sunlite9759]

You can't listen if you can't think. The object of socialism!

[@hannachumakova1086]

True! For me as a climate sceptic he didn't say anything new but still it was so masterfully put together!

[@peterkent3418]

The movie “Mr Jones” is an incredible depiction of how the Soviets controlled the western press in Russia. It also shows how far the Soviets went to hide from the west their failed agriculture policies that caused the most awful famine in the Ukraine.

[@harrymills2770]

Kukaks.

[@mammothenterprises2921]

I will have to look at that movie, a rarity- a movie exposing communism.

[@radagast7200]

Don't forget that those failed agricultural 'policies' were also implemented in China with an even larger death toll, making Lysenko one of the most murderous 'scientist' of all time.

[@613harbinger316]

It wasn't just the Soviets who were hiding the reality. Allies in the west were hard at work denying or outright lying about the conditions within. I don't remember the name, but a journalist (New York Times?) went to the USSR, saw the starvation and was so convinced that Socialism/Communism was the right way, decided to report that everything was ok. It's basically the worst kind of fundamentalism of a different religion.

[@Metalblowing]

russia does the same media manipulations now. They blow up a civilian building for the 1000th time and push disinformation that it was a military object. They create a chasm between Americans so people can't agree on anything. Just watch the RT channel for 5 minutes.

[@jaynedapoz3788]

Thanks Dave, great interview. This is what we need to talk about and NOT another The View segment

[@stevenwright7290]

Exactly

[@reneeberthedrapeau5791]

When I listen to K. Kisin, I don't hear Right or Left speak, I hear the voice of common sense.

[@Si_Mondo]

That'll change when you hear him debate Ukraine. He'll be debating Dave Smith on that issue soon. I like Konstantine but he's wrong on the Ukraine War, whereas Smith isn't.

[@Lodgiefitness]

@@Si_Mondo I think the problem with Ukraine is there is no right side to that argument.

[@marcustulliuscicero2676]

@@Si_Mondo I'm Russian, and Konstantin is 100% right on this one. Dave Smith doesn't understand what he's talking about. He has good intentions, but unlike Konstantin he doesn't understand the situation well and completely misjudges motifs of the conflict and potential consequences.

[@insanelyrandom]

@@Si_Mondo im with you, find his interview with vivafrei he showed himself up a bit, but you cant agree with everyone on everything im happy with him on wokeniess but not on other things such as what you mention here

[@nikolatomic5287]

@@Si_Mondo konstantine is jew from ukraine. he is too subjective in that debate.

[@laughingvampire7555]

In Mexico we are given the same victim mindset about Spain and the USA, "they invaded us, they are evil, we are poor victims" and you can see this mentality in many places.

[@bperez8656]

Ironically, Mexicans are culturally humble and kind so they don’t seem to carry that resentment like whites and blacks do in America I think that victim mindset is being imported by white and Mexican liberals into Mexico Divide and conquer BS

[@rootdoc1997]

This guy is very impressive

[@johnsmithers8913]

Hard to imagine grown adults being fooled into believing a socialist Utopia is possible. By the time you are in your mid twenties, you have enough experiemce with people, and your own behaviour that you should realize humans are going to warp everything for their own personal interest, consciously or subconsciously. Handimg you money and liberty to some bureaucrat is insane.

[@TheDuckofDoom.]

Many people are actually very dumb, like frustrated screaming chimp dumb. But among those who are able to think their way out of a wet paper bag; It's partly a control thing, the high of telling others what to do clouds judgment, and a fantasy bias of believing that centralizing power will only effect the things you want it to effect, ie "ah that would never happen here". (And even if it really only effected the one thing, they really haven't put in the effort to consider the thing ... like the old genie trick where they grant the wish while being malicious about the infinite details that weren't specified.)

[@chasleask8533]

The grown adults are usually public servants. They never grow up.

[@stevendouglas3781]

They aren’t fooled. They know it doesn’t work and they know it’s evil. They do it to achieve power and to destroy the country that they hate.

[@seasonedbeefs]

They've flipped it to diversity and inclusion now for the adults. Same thing though. Cultural Marx

[@anniehopkins8470]

You are correct... and your point about... "By the time you are in your mid twenties, you have enough experience with people, and your own behavior..." is worth noting as well... this is why they are always trying to extend childhood into the mid-late 20s in our culture... and will continue to push that back as far as they can. As long as they can keep people in a state of arrested development... they will never be forced to look at reality.

[@tonim5924]

I first watched Konstantin do the lecture at Oxford and was so impressed. Thank you Dave for having him on your show. This man knows about socialism and communism. People should listen to him not Bernie Sanders. Bernie doesn't know what he is talking about but Konstantin does!!

[@basswars7060]

My grandparents were imprisoned for three years in a Hungarian gulag. They were tortured and forced to live in miserable conditions. My grandmother died soon after being released. My grandfather was broken physically and emotionally. They were put there by people just like Bernie Sanders. Their crime? They were farmers.

[@LisbonLion7]

Really sorry to hear about this, my great uncle somehow survived Katyn, and also my Grampa from a camp in Spain after he escaped Poland. And as much as I hate the regimes involved, I do have to acknowledge that, at the same time Stalin was robbing their crops and starving them for the military effort, Churchill and co were doing the same in Bengal.

[@basswars7060]

You just had to go there.

[@DK-tm3qj]

Bernie: We need to raise the minimum wage to $15/h (but until then I'll pay my staff $9)...

[@docsavage8640]

Also Bernie: Everyone should pay more taxes to fund my causes of preference (while I pocket my money and hire accountants and attorneys to keep it from being taxed)"

[@tomhgriff1]

This guy is fantastic. Get him on every TV channel and podcast and finally people may remember to rely on facts again rather than enablement and "feelings".

[@richardextall2002]

Anybody who has truly lived under socialism or communism will never sing it's praises. Ever.

[@stevenwright7290]

I remember seeing that Bill Maher show where Bernie didn't know the difference between equality and equity... Absolutely shocking.

[@IlovetheTruth]

Konstantin=breath of fresh air

[@BigBenn2014]

When the Berlin Wall fell down, which way did the people run?

[@sharonleis1365]

Excellent point.

[@bromack3]

Yep, and many americans who visited back in the 30's were always shown the Potemkin villages instead of the real Soviet union.

[@frankgellenthin3733]

Great interview! The American communist woman who became disillusioned in Russia was Emma Goldman.

[@Si_Mondo]

She was an Anarchist of a Marxist leaning.... and what she saw in Russia didn't change her opinion that Marx was correct.... so she wasn't really disillusioned enough if you ask me

[@violent_bebop9687]

Decades the truth was known about communism, and then you have the historical records of China's revolution, killing fields of Pol Pot. The purposeful ignorance is staggering

[@harrymills2770]

After the Gulag leaked out, championing socialism became a tough sell. Since George Orwell - a former socialist - figured out it was all a sham, the elites switched tactics from "Socialism is great!" to systematically discrediting free-market capitalism. With generations indoctrinated against free-market capitalism, socialism became more and more popular amongst academics, who dared not speak its name until quite recently. Now we're back to the 1920s, again, where socialism represents some kind of utopian alternative to free-market capitalism and limited government. Most people don't understand the basic principles and main differences between socialist authoritarianism and free-market capitalism. Nobody understands the concept of Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand," because it's, well, invisible! It's far easier to parade a few people you used taxpayer money to benefit than it is to show the destruction of the engine of prosperity that lifts EVERYone. It's not an invisible hand. It's an invisible tide that raises all boats simultaneously, through millions of individual transactions and choices made VOLUNTARILY by people. The so-called 'left' (whom I see as re-branded authoritarian right with a kinder, gentler mask) don't trust the people, so they foolishly put all their faith in the most toxic power seekers in the country, rewarding foolish policies with votes, because there's Free Stuff in it for those who support total demagogues. Most of the progress of the 20th Century was in SPITE of what the government was doing. Our free-market economy generated so much wealth and prosperity that the erosion of our prosperity by demagogues was not as great as the engine of prosperity: Free people incentivized to excellence by profit. The economy is NOT a zero-sum game. We CREATE wealth through hard work and innovation. And we get the most innovation from a free society that allows EVERYbody the right to KEEP what they build or earn. Socialists hate that. They want power and they want to MAKE winners they can show off, rather than LETTING people win on their own merits.

[@hgianos65]

Perfectly said

[@jongreen9171]

I concur, progress, invention and innovation is bottom up rather than top down. Always has been and always will be.

[@thomasaquinas157]

Well said. On a deeper level, it's an atheistic religion --a poor substitute for God, but a false god that's necessary to avoid despair.

[@gavwilson3413]

KK seems to me to be young Jordan Peterson. He speaks clearly and is able to reach young people in a way other conservative thinkers often struggle to. We need more like him. The sooner the better.

[@searlearnold2867]

I'm an immigrant whose family escaped apartheid South Africa. Parents are from the Silent Generation, Boomer siblings and I'm Gen X. Guess what I think of woke culture, CRT, socialism and the totalitarian state and where we're headed... Hold my beer, this is gonna be good, you ain't seen nothing yet.

[@hazeleyedsoul3282]

Kisin's presentation at Oxford was a great watch. I encourage everyone to watch the full episode of arguements from both sides over on their channel here...makes his speech all the more powerful imho.

[@vladkagreen1824]

Exactly! "is it useful?" This "victim culture" certainly is not. To anybody.

[@jkbrown5496]

I believe it as in Amity Shales, ‘Forgoten Men’ where she wrote of the, not few, men who became leaders in the New Deal ,who had visited the Soviet Union and returned full of praise for what they’d seen.

[@DieFlabbergast]

*Forgotten

[@sifridbassoon]

Emma Goldman, an anarchist and socialist, was deported to USSR in the early days. She was so depressed at what she saw that she returned disillusioned to the US

[@thomasaquinas157]

It takes formal teaching in college to reach that level of stupidity and naïveté.

[@Munce72]

Great work Dave! Scooby snacks for you and Konstatin. My allegiance is to Liberty, the Repubic and Democracy.

[@DieFlabbergast]

"Repubic"? Pornography makes a comeback?

[@bobbynicole10]

thank you David for having Konstantin over, great conversation ❤🎉

[@tarmstrong9906]

I remember when I first started Twitter how Dave really understanding and kind how he helped me absorb my embarrassing posts. Very cool 👍👍👍👍👍.

[@fretless05]

What's always boggled my mind is to see woke teens and twenty-somethings tell people who've fled socialist countries that they don't know what they're talking about and that socialism is peace and love and equality... Like Reagan said long ago about liberals, it's not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so!

[@joebikeguy6669]

I believe you are referring to NYT reporter Walter Duranty.

[@MrClassicmetal]

Yes! I think Yuri Bezmenov mentioned him, but I'm not 100% sure about that.

[@radagast7200]

Yeah, the NYT received a pulitzer for his lies. They also got an award from Castro, who said they were 'essential to the revolution'. They also viciously defended the CCP for many recent things, from their minority camps to their role in creating the rona to their unparalleled ecological damage. Basically, they're still the same paper that won a pulitzer for Duranty's obscuring of the Holodomor.

[@dixonpinfold2582]

Dang I love this clip. Bravo, Konstantin.

[@MM-gx3jf]

Great interview!

[@johnl1677]

You teach people to believe these lies because they can then be controlled. Educated, productive people who think for themselves cannot be controlled.

[@thomasaquinas157]

The US imported compulsory government run schooling from socialist Prussia in the 1860s. It's been a socialist project from the beginning. Do any Americans know this? No.

[@Er-sv5tn]

Why wouldn't you trust a politician who's never had a real job...

[@thomasaquinas157]

Bernie even failed as a hippie, getting kicked out of a commune for being a lazy bum.

[@denpobedy7881]

in the 30s, they did the same to George Bernard Shaw. He got fully taken in by the Potemkin village scam.

[@yafafarahdel4229]

Absolutely love love what he is preaching ♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@evakasparova2513]

Great video! Thank you!

[@zachgates7491]

I believe Kisin was referring to GB Shaw who loved his visit to the ussr

[@oceania2385]

Once I saw Bernie's Potemkin village "honeymoon tour" ... I knew he was clueless

[@bromack3]

and many americans who visited back in the 30's were always shown the Potemkin villages instead of the real Soviet union... i.e. Paul Robeson, WEB Dubois, Langston Huges. Its the same today in North Korea.

[@radagast7200]

Or just evil.

[@radagast7200]

​@bromack3 and they were all very evil... or very, very, very stupid.

[@bromack3]

@@radagast7200 Actually they were called, "useful idiots." Bernie Sanders also visited Cuba and thought their form of universal healthcare was very good. But what he did not see was their are 3 types of healthcare offered within Cuba. First the tourists, second members of the communist party and lastly everybody else. I saw pictures of the citizens hospitals, they all looked like trash. Cuba is also known for its low infant mortality rate. But no one talks about the high abortion rate.

[@oceania2385]

@@bromack3 there's channel called "afro marxist" that has WEB Dubois speech after he visited the Soviet Union, praising it. Audio only but worth a listen

[@qba4455]

Excellent

[@carltonreese4854]

Perhaps someone in the comments has already spelled this out, so I apologize if so. I believe the reporter Kisin describes is Walter Duranty of the New York Times. I think he won a Pulitzer for his clap-trap about how great the Soviet Union was. These were called "Potemkin Villages" that people like Duranty and Bernie Sanders witnessed in their times over in the Soviet Union. I went to the Soviet Union in the mid-80s and was shown these places that created a false, benign impression of that country. At one point, I strayed from my group of Westerners and actually visited with some Russian people in their apartment complex, which was no Potemkin Village. Unfortunately, most of what comes out of legacy media these days is like those Potemkin Villages.

[@wm3138]

Tell the truth, are you shocked that a politician was dishonest or upset about your own naïveté?

[@Casey9269]

Wow your guest is a very intelligent and clear thinking individual

[@jasonwright2569]

So good!

[@jongreen9171]

The two stages to adopting socialist policies. 1) Adopt socialist policies 2) Starve

[@jennymisteqq5399]

5:27 I’m glad Rubin put a spotlight on how people fall for narratives and propaganda, but don’t truly understand the concepts being pushed. I didn’t see the Bill Maher Bernie Sanders exchange, but Dave described it perfectly.

[@jennymisteqq5399]

I like how it wasn’t a “gotcha” moment between people on opposing sides. Instead it was two people who respect each other, one just pointing out to the other their true confusion about a position they hold.

[@deniseg-hill1730]

I spent 2 months on a Kibbutz as a volunteer, if you didnt like it you left no problem. I called that voluntary socialism.

[@bwalker4194]

A compounding issue for young people today that previous generations did not have is our media’s relentless vilification of carbon dioxide. By high school graduation, they’ve had 13 years of nonstop pedantic brainwashing that industry is bad, as is anything else that uses carbon fuels. They do not want to be a part of anything non-green, and so they drift into college educations with degrees ending in “studies”. This readies them for jobs and outlooks for professional critics, where they can be insulated from real life and be one step closer to their green dysfunctional utopia.

[@wheel-man5319]

CO2 is bad... just remember the CO2 they're most interested in eliminating is the CO2 created by you breathing.

[@NitroModelsAndComics]

My brother is a man I consider rather brilliant. When he came to visit some years ago with all the "Feel the Bern" rubbish on his car I shuddered. Now I knew better. I have a sense for crap and have a keen nose for it. I had heard the Bern speak and knew that he was both full of it and completely off his tits. I said as much to my brother. It was a rift that lasted a good long while between us. We have not spoken of it since, but I get the feeling it is something he feels differently about now Perhaps we will discuss his view soon. I wish to know what has changed for him.

[@malvarado5955]

Wow , what an interesting guest

[@wiseonwords]

I believe it was Paul Robeson who made that statement about the Soviet Union mentioned at 6:48. In the context of Jim Crow and the various other forms of oppression endured by black Americans up until the 1960s, Robeson's blindness is at least half understandable. He genuinely saw Communism as the only way out for black Americans. But for Bernie Sanders, there are zero excuses!

[@jspfromnycgloba]

Perfect

[@daviddiaz529]

Everyday Yuri continues to be vindicated.

[@julietaylor9166]

Bernie use to complain and blame millionaires for this countries problems but now, since he is one, he blames billionaires.

[@saldebus]

George Bernard Shaw was the guy who came back in the 30s talking about how great the soviet union was....

[@andromedach]

all we need to know about the Soviet system is the results of Boris Yeltsin's visit in 1989.

[@julianton3340]

Brillant young mind this Konstantin Kissin. 👌👏

[@allwaizeright9705]

It's NOT CALLED a DOG and PONY SHOW for NOTHING...

[@johnnyher559]

This guy needs to have a chat with joe rogan since joe loves bernie

[@Herb___]

Smart man.

[@jschapp77]

No one who works for themselves is woke. There’s a reason for that. You have to do it.

[@bigredracingdog466]

0:27 "I can't remember..." That might've been Armand Hammer. Lenin called him his favorite capitalist.

[@rodger2499]

Wow this guy is great.

[@radiofreealbemuth]

Al gore in his Oscar winning documentary said the Arctic would be gone by 2013 and polar bears would be extinct. Polar bears are thriving right now and not even on endangered list. Media was also fearmongering about 10 years ago, citing "experts" that were predicting Florida would be underwater in 7 years. Australia even warned in 1999, that in 20 years, there would be no more snow. They just had historic record snowfall. Climate has always been changing. That's why ice age is cyclical and Sahara desert was lush 10,000 years ago.

[@neiltoby1771]

Exactly, and nobody talks about Antarctica expanding .It's just another level of control and another way of taxing people.

[@fredrikjohansson7854]

im more worried about microplastics showing up everywhere including drinking water, even in lymphnodes during autopsies, or the overuse of antibiotics where young people buy antibiotics on the internet for STD's than im worried about the weather changing. We should allways be vigilant about how we might negatively impact our world, but we should also ALLWAYS look at what the agendas are behind the people crying wolf. As someone wise once said "follow the money.." things might sound quite differently when your aware that the person talking are making millions from scaring you in to moving in a certain direction.

[@radiofreealbemuth]

@@fredrikjohansson7854 yes, I'm very concerned with our water quality and everything coming in plastic bottles and containers, not fossil fuel and gas appliances.

[@seandavis2520]

I was in the Soviet Union and did not understand how Bernie thought it was soo awesome... The Churches, Metros. People were awesome... at the same time it was like going back in time to the 1950s .. the people were looking to the west for true progress..

[@Saint.questions]

Well.. when he suggested Kilary I knew it was a wrap.

[@zachmarentette1668]

I think the guy he’s talking about (who visited the USSR and said he ate well) was HG Wells.. Stalin left quite an impression on him

[@mustardtiger5080]

thumbs up...

[@johnbroadway4196]

- The wishes for fairness is the desires of our childhood, fighting to make Adults to be held responsible for how life Truly is ". Wonderchek ///.

[@novosib9017]

its interesting to listen to him. He bags the Soviet Union, yet the reason he is so levelheaded, speaks common sense and is intelligent is partly because of the Soviet Union. He even uses the sayings and idioms that were past down to him to teach his western audience.

[@johnDukemaster]

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy did a film once called Utopia. Shows that good intentions is theory and reality is...well, reality!

[@rakasin]

I think he's referring to Sydney and Beatrice Webb

[@PedroElPolako]

I remember journalists in Second Polish Republic longing for Communist Utopia Eastwards, seeing as IIPR was hardly a paradise and most often when they finally decided to flee evil Piłsudski Regime they were captured at the border and executed for attempt to spy for enemy state.

[@johnprendergast1338]

It seems easy to talk socialism and live capitalistic .....Worked for Bernie ...

[@oldschoolcockneylover8138]

Must be Bernard Shaw the guy in Soviet Union 30s a playwright who started Fabian Society and LSE I think

[@TheVoxbox13]

I would love to know what his examples were to the person asking him if there are woke people in (xyz). I'm not as comfortable a communicator as he is (easily get nervous) so it would be nice to have a few more talking points at hand. (I don't do too badly, but always think of the best examples about 1.5 hours later.)

[@neilnewinger3059]

There were several western famous left leaning personalities, who were disillusioned and restored to sanity after visiting Soviet Union. For example George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell.

[@neilnewinger3059]

Actually I might be wrong. G. B. Shaw did not recover from that disease.

[@Si_Mondo]

​@@neilnewinger3059Neither did Russell... lifelong Fabians are just middle class Commies.

[@neilnewinger3059]

@@Si_Mondo Russell was at least strongly critical of Stalin's dictatorship.

[@BmcC102]

This guy is the boss.

[@meredithisme3752]

Vermont and Bernie Sanders remind me of the movie "Deliverance" that's how I view Vermont voters

[@adamgates1142]

Weird considering it's obviously the south

[@neasahayes6044]

"Bright young people" yes they probably are but there are plenty of bright young people also who don't attend university and don't come from the privileged backgrounds that the Oxbridge graduates almost always invariably come from. There are plenty people who do essential work who haven't got any degree. These people aren't going to be running anything but they are the ones that keep societies functioning. Those that make, mend, deliver and design.

[@dannysullivan3951]

Sanders was extremely naive to give Soviets any PR, and Kissin just as naive in the other direction.

[@benmeltzer]

Consider changing one of the titles. "Falling for a trick" contradicts "being a fraud."

[@Toracube]

Bernard Shaw loved the USSR…he got the trip and fell for it, hook line and sinker.

[@linalg8425]

Young Russian women will make any Western politician's knees weak.

[@josephinelb5735]

Ruben you must have Calvin Robinson on as well

[@aituk]

I don't disagree with Konstantin's assessment of Bernie's outright naivety but I do understand why people take him seriously. Desperation. It's that simple. He's one of the few democrats (or democrat types as an independent) who calls out the party for abandoning the working class on many issues and selling out to corporate interests. If the democratic party actually broke away from corporate interests and wholeheartedly supported the working classes then there wouldn't be a need for Bernie at all.

[@Dabhach1]

Bernie Sanders -- "Capitalism is evil. My new book, available at twenty bucks a pop, will explain why".

[@jongreen9171]

AOC subscribes to the same school of thought - "capitalism is bad; here buy a shitty grey sweater with my slogan on it for $50"

[@chasleask8533]

There it is.

[@petewick8627]

For a lot of them “going and doing something” means joining Antifa

[@sifridbassoon]

@peter wick and throwing paint on paintings in a museum

[@msmintjuleps]

Cuba was the same way. They would take tourist only to tourist spots on the island.

[@jamescollier3]

He just campaigns, and legally gives 10% of all donations to his agent, his wife

[@The-Mstr-Pook]

I'd much rather listen to the full interview than these shorts. Why not release that first then give people the option of the condensed version 2days after?