Yuri N. Maltsev: Soviet Defector on the Loss of Freedom in America

Tags: Biographies, Education, The Police State

07/25/2014 Jeff Deist Yuri N. Maltsev

Jeff Deist and Yuri Maltsev discuss not only his defection from the former USSR, but also his defection from the Marxist economic mindset, the crime of reading Hayek, why so many westerners still have a naïve, uninformed, and romantic view of socialism, how the Ruble was nothing more than a fiat rationing coupon, and why people with contempt for consumerism never visited a Soviet grocery store.

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