10.44- Bolshevik Bank Heist

Who expropriates the expropriators?

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Comments

[J.P.]

I don't know a lot about Georgian but I once had the pronunciation of Dzhugashvili explained to me as basically being 'Jooug-ash-villy'

[Mason Smith]

Finally caught up! You have helped me stay sane throughout all this, and I can’t thank you enough. Keep doing what you’re doing, and I hope to be listening far into the future.

[Doug Maynard]

I loved this episode. Someone needs to adapt this historical event into a motion picture!

[Mystikos]

Oh, come on, Mike! You're not gonna say Stalin's birth name??

First name - Yoh-seb (in Georgian) or Ee-oh-sif (in Russian). Last name - Joo-gah-shvee-lee (or as the earlier comment transcribed it if that's simpler).

Also - if it's not obvious, "Stalin" is from the Russian word for "steel", which speaks to the image of himself that he wanted to project. "Koba", similarly, was a Robin Hood (Pancho Villa) type, bandit-hero character from a popular book.

Awesome episode indeed. Liberal speeches in parliaments are great history, but they need to be spiced up with some iron and blood ;-).

[Swimming Bird]

I've been waiting for you to get to my boii Stalin, my mans was literally Tony Montana and Bugs Bunny on steroids who got away with everything.

My man needs a gangsta movie made about him.

[David]

Thank you for the excellent episode.
I really like the fact that you actually have a genuine file name when you download it, and not something like sl103@#_(54jsj