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Who was Adolf Hitler—and what happens when “unity” becomes a weapon? Segment 5 traces the rise of total control and the deadly consequences of collectivist ideology when the individual becomes expendable. If Stalin shows collectivism through class, and Mao shows collectivism through mass campaigns, Hitler shows something else: collectivism through nation and race. That’s important because people often reduce this conversation to economics, “socialism vs. capitalism”, when the deeper issue is...

Who was Mao Zedong—and what happens when an ideology tries to outvote reality? Segment 4 traces the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the brutal cost of collectivism when “warmth” becomes enforceable. If Pol Pot is the shock of collectivism in miniature, Mao is collectivism at scale, not just a revolution, but a national experiment . And it’s one of the clearest historical examples of what happens when leaders try to vote reality off the island  with ideology. Mao Zedong was...

Who was Joseph Stalin—and what happens when “care” becomes coercion? Segment 3 traces collectivization, famine, purges, and the gulag to expose the lie behind the “warmth of collectivism.” Collectivism rarely walks into the room saying, “I want control.” It walks in saying, “I want to help.” It speaks in the language of care, warmth, fairness, protection, dignity. It frames itself as the moral alternative to cold selfishness, and it usually starts with a real observation: people do suffer,...