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Jiang cites Richard Spence for the argument that Wall Street financed the Bolsheviks to destroy Russia's economy and extract its wealth and resources.
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Russian Revolution
Jiang models both the French and Russian revolutions as a sequence of poet, prophet, and messiah: Rousseau/Marx, Robespierre/Lenin, Napoleon/Stalin.
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Jiang models both the French and Russian revolutions as a sequence of poet, prophet, and messiah: Rousseau/Marx, Robespierre/Lenin, Napoleon/Stalin.
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"...is a passage from a book called Wall Street and the Russian Revolution by Richard Spence. And Richard Spence is a historian and he..."
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"Destroy the Russian economy because Russia's a threat, okay? And then it wants to steal the riches and the resources from the Russians, okay?..."
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"...okay so um in many ways the french revolution and the russian revolution are very similar all right so let's go over the similarities..."
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"world to ensure the revolution succeeds uh in the french revolution napoleon right who said i'm expanding empire okay so his theory to ensure..."
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"...And that's why he lost. The same is true for the Russian revolution. This is Vladimir Lenin. He's not charismatic. But he is extremely..."
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"...right. So this is a book called Wall Street and the Russian Revolution. It's started by a man by the name of Richard Spence...."
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"...want to destroy everyone. Okay? So that's why they support the Russian Revolution because they knew the Bolsheviks would destroy the Russian economy."
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"...changed the mind, the calculus of these German generals. The 1917 Russian Revolution. Why did the revolution happen? Because Tsar Nicholas was too focused..."
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