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Soviet Union
2018-01-15, 1 mention2018-05-09, 1 mention2018-05-30, 4 mentions2018-08-23, 1 mention2019-02-16, 1 mention2019-09-15, 1 mention2021-07-04, 1 mention2022-01-04, 3 mentions2023-10-14, 1 mention2023-11-04, 1 mention
Tim’s take
He mostly uses the Soviet Union as a historical reference point rather than a subject of its own — the Cold War enemy the U.S. national security state was built to fight 53:24, and the model for how funding a proxy force (Al-Qaeda against the Soviets) can backfire, a comparison he draws again when explaining Hamas 2:58. In a lighter aside with Lex Fridman he singles out the Soviet national anthem as objectively better than the American one, calling it "the baddest" and saying he plays it in the car 23:40. Beyond that he lets guests do the actual reflecting on Soviet propaganda and its collapse without staking out a position himself 25:48 1:12:15.
Every Reference (15)
"Which they did. Yeah. No, it's really what brought down the Soviet Union. Yeah along with the arms race, but it was a big part armed"
"communist for a few years. The only place he could get trade is the Soviet Union. I'm like, what are you, okay. Cat good for cat. Okay, okay."
"the Soviet Union, that kind of, you know, the ideology the Soviet Union kind of created there? Yeah, I mean, this is the tragedy in"
"How important was the period post when the Soviet Union collapsed? When you had basically a lot of these oligarchs,"
The 1990s Looting and Bulletproof Mercedes — Russia's Super Mafia"about the book is how basically once a lot of the structures of Soviet Union collapsed, it goes back even until when in the 60s and 70s"
"book, but there's some people who viewed the collapse of the Soviet Union in the ensuing years of the Yeltsin as kind of the West and"
"he was of the Twelfth Soviet Directory in charge of nuclear weapons in the Soviet Union and when the Soviet Union Collapsed in 92 to 93"
9/11 Truther Deep Dive: Nuclear Charges and Building 7 — The Great Francis James+251s into the segment"Yeah, fuck. That's like a famous thing I believe from like the Soviet Union the guy goes well, where's the omelet? The fuck's this omelet"
"have to give us any type of story anymore. Yeah. I know the Soviet Union. Uh, when Chernobyl happened, what were they telling people"
Body Positivity Extremes and the Country Being Too Dumb to Govern — 165 - Please Come Kill Us+270s into the segment"that was designed to at least nominally combat communism in the Soviet Union which also became strengthened after its victory in World War II"
JFK Files, January 6th Informants, and Manufactured Chaos — #259 - Independence Day with Glenn Greenwald | The Tim Dillon Show+111s into the segment"you know, you grow up in the Soviet Union with the idea I grew up in the Soviet Union with the idea of love of country was really powerful."
Was Jeffrey and Ghislaine's Relationship 'Real Love'? — #282 - Lex Fridman | The Tim Dillon Show+44s into the segment"Sure. In the in the United States, what I remember from the Soviet Union, there's a uh centralized government-driven propaganda. So"
"as somebody who was in the Soviet Union in the 90s and then the collapse of the Soviet Union that was true suffering and uncertainty."
Understanding Putin, His Rise After Soviet Collapse, and Succession Fears — #282 - Lex Fridman | The Tim Dillon Show+167s into the segment"way that we funded Al-Qaeda when it was the Mujahideen against the Soviets in Afghanistan. We built that. So it's often these things"
Explaining Hamas and the October 7th Attack — Degree Of Difficulty | The Tim Dillon Show #365+86s into the segment"that we funded the Soviets against uh I'm sorry we funded Al-Qaeda against the Soviets is there any part of Israel thinking when they're"
Hamas's Charter, Iran's Role, and the Sacrifice of Gaza — A Case For Israel with Noa Tishby | The Tim Dillon Show #368+144s into the segment