Code Red | Chapter 1
Oct 30, 2021 · 40 min · 8 segments
On his way to the subway one morning, Jack Barsky receives a signal from the Center. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Oct 30, 2021 · 40 min · 8 segments
On his way to the subway one morning, Jack Barsky receives a signal from the Center. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jack BarskyGuestChapter 1.
Code Red.
speaks from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Council of Ministers of the USSR Union and the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
March 9, 1953.
Today was Joseph Stalin's funeral, and he was getting a final and dramatic salute.
His embalmed body paraded through Moscow's Red Square as millions of mourners looked on in the bitter cold.
Long live the great and victorious doctrine of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin!
Decades before he was to become Jack Barsky, a young Albrecht Dietrich listened to the procession on the radio in his family's small apartment in eastern Germany.
Chopin's funeral march played over the airwaves as Albrecht, along with his mother, father, and brother listened intently.
I asked my father, dad, who is that Stalin? Why are we all sad? And he tried to explain to me that he was the greatest leader ever.
It was my first vivid recollection of anything, and it had to do with the atmosphere, with the music. .
Though Hitler and Stalin were now both dead and the Great War had been over for some time, the devastation was so much more than a memory.
It was a reality to those living in the countryside of Eastern Germany.
Poverty was widespread and there was simply not enough for everyone.
And that second house that I grew up in had a whole bunch of holes in the walls from people shooting.
There was nothing to destroy, there was nothing to take away, because that was one of the poorest sections of Germany, mostly agriculture and forest, and the soil was pretty poor, so the peasants were not that rich.
Chapter 1.
Code Red.
speaks from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Council of Ministers of the USSR Union and the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
March 9, 1953.
Today was Joseph Stalin's funeral, and he was getting a final and dramatic salute.
His embalmed body paraded through Moscow's Red Square as millions of mourners looked on in the bitter cold.
Long live the great and victorious doctrine of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin!
Decades before he was to become Jack Barsky, a young Albrecht Dietrich listened to the procession on the radio in his family's small apartment in eastern Germany.
Chopin's funeral march played over the airwaves as Albrecht, along with his mother, father, and brother listened intently.
I asked my father, dad, who is that Stalin? Why are we all sad? And he tried to explain to me that he was the greatest leader ever.
It was my first vivid recollection of anything, and it had to do with the atmosphere, with the music. .
Though Hitler and Stalin were now both dead and the Great War had been over for some time, the devastation was so much more than a memory.
It was a reality to those living in the countryside of Eastern Germany.
Poverty was widespread and there was simply not enough for everyone.
And that second house that I grew up in had a whole bunch of holes in the walls from people shooting.
There was nothing to destroy, there was nothing to take away, because that was one of the poorest sections of Germany, mostly agriculture and forest, and the soil was pretty poor, so the peasants were not that rich.
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