Fantastic book, love Michael

I will need to listen to it several more times. English is not my first language. Greetings from Croatia!

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Informative and clear

I’ve always found that part of history fascinating but hard to penetrate. This gives a well informed happening of the USSR in a logical and intresting order.

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history of Russia and rise of communism

very full account of eastern block history. possibly quite biased in parts and the pace was quite rapid, I listened at 0.8 speed

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Terrible narration!!!

I'm very interested in the content of this book, but I'm struggling to listen to the narrator, who doesn't even draw a breath between the words, let alone between the sentences. Even when slowing it down slightly, it's very difficult to process what's being said. It's completely devoid of any punctuation and emotion, and it sounds as if he is proofreading and he can't wait to get to the end!
As one of the previous readers pointed out, it shouldn't have been read by the author. I feel cheated!

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In my seventy years ?

There have been many beginnings and endings, there is no such thing as 'The End' only another beginning and another ending....................and so it goes

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Mission accomplished!

Already a huge fan of the author and had very high expectations from the book and it was even better than expected. As far as I understand it, the objective of the book was to show to everyone who thinks that our world is about to collapse and things have never been worse and that there is no way out, that they can not only get far worse, but also that even if they do, we can still fight back, recover and win! On all accounts this objective is achieved!

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The Right Side of History: A Lot of Black Pill before the White Pill

Malice’s style has a real elan and wit, salving the grisly saga of communism with its unfounded confidence in the science of Marxism. Marx was wrong about everything but his child’s eye reduction of the world to oppressor and oppressed still holds academia in its thrall and has given birth to the neoracist BS such as CRT. Malice points out that communism was clearly nonsense but ruined or ended the lives of millions. A very small minority can force ideas on a nation in a short while, especially when the population is indoctrinated with one viewpoint as in the Anglosphere. One constant was the grovelling complicity of “progressives” in pushing crap ideas and lying to support them, exhibit A the NewYork Times whitewashing the Stalinist purges and holomodor and academics for the idea of a centrally planned state run by technocrats.

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Great history lesson on the evils of communism

Great history lesson on the evils of communism/ socialism and tyranny and bloodshed that comes with it.

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Detailed historical review of the Soviet Era

The author gives an impressively detailed and factual retelling of the Soviet era and all the excruciatingly dark and horrific events that occurred. The first 3/4 of the book would be more accurately labelled the ‘black pill’ - a representation of the evils that human beings are capable of, and the dark side of human nature taken to extremes.

The narrative style is a bit bizarre - focusing on the facts of what happened and seldom attempting to tie sections together into summaries and insights, despite the richness of the stories being told. The audio is delivered at a hyper frenetic pace with no pauses for breath - the reader is left feeling breathless and it can be difficult to keep up with the barrage of facts. Some pauses for reflection and insights and changes in pace would have been welcomed. It seems the author was more focused on delivering excruciatingly accurate factual details, than giving the reader a smooth ride. A copyeditor would have been a smart move to improve the readability. Part of me did like this weird factual and details obsessed narrative though, so it wasn’t all bad and an interesting though jarring approach.

The last part of the book is ultimately what it is all about and brilliantly realist but optimistic- the white pill. The final message is that good can and does win over evil and we should never stop striving for liberty from oppressive powers. I love this message.

However, I can’t help but feel disappointed. There is an entire universe of white pill insights that could have been generated from the stories and indeed other human stories from around the world and throughout time. The hype of the book was far greater than the reality of what it delivered. The white pill part barely scratched the surface of the power in the concept. This book could have been the first in a 2 part series. The second book digging deep into the insights of how and why good can triumph over evil. What tools can the forces of good use that history has taught us? What kind of future society do we want to build? How do we triumph over seemingly impossible odds and create new structures that are almost unimaginable? This is a critical time for the human race as we grapple with overcoming our 21st century environmental, economic, political and technological crises. We are in desperate need of a society paradigm shift and the white pill holds the promise of how we can create this paradigm shift. Michael, please expand on this brilliant spark and explore the universe of possibilities that the white pill offers!

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Slow down!

You'll need the speed function to slow him down, otherwise fascinating content and well presented in understandable context. If only our politicians in the West could open their eyes and save us from what is coming.

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