Sovietology, sometimes known as Kremlinology, is the derisive name given to historians of the Soviet Union, by virtue of their questionable practices and goals. Let's see how those practices seep into Hearts of Iron.
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The Victoria 3 video of mine I mentioned:
https://youtu.be/VSZ0NsuO3D8

The Glubb Video:
https://youtu.be/DFWtpxQFCSs
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People who helped (yay)


@ArmchairEgyptology :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWfVqsUcrV4


@StepBackHistory :
https://youtu.be/DAB-E2yKMbw (mentioned in video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6euku8NhtY (tangentially relevant)
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Sources and additional readings

Applebaum:
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169438
Note: I've just remembered that the person I have in there for a critique of Applebaum has some... curious theories himself and while not a discredited academic, probably shouldn't be the final word on her questionable credibility. To that end I've included another source below from the trusted (and frequently cited) historian economist Stephen G Wheatcroft.

Additional on Applebaum:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326562364_The_Turn_Away_from_Economic_Explanations_for_Soviet_Famines

Getty Conquest letters:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v09/n02/j.-arch-getty/starving-the-ukraine

Montefiore review, stable link:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27896172

Added reading on Orwell’s List:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160305071504/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2003/09/25/orwells-list/

The Talk Page™
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Human_wave_attack

Kremlinology article:
https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/11333

"Eastern Europe" article:
https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/Uni-Nova/Uni-Nova-126/Uni-Nova-126-The-concept-of-Eastern-Europe-in-past-and-present.html

Sources on the new understanding of the numbers
(if these links don’t work I can cite the essays by name and hope people can search them)

https://sovietinfo.tripod.com/ELM-Repression_Statistics.pdf

https://sovietinfo.tripod.com/WCR-Secret_Police.pdf

https://sovietinfo.tripod.com/GTY-Penal_System.pdf

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00:00 intro
04:53 Stalin’s Role
09:24 Mass Assault and Human Wave
14:54 Who are the Sovietologists?
35:44 Sovietology and Consequences
39:05 Conclusion
45:28 Outro