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Speaker 1: I'm Jason Colvin, I'm d Graves.

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Speaker 2: Give us five minutes and we will give you the fire.

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Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Surely You Can't

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Be Serious Podcast Special Edition five Minutes of Fire. We

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are here talking about the lyrics of We Didn't Start

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the Fire by Billy Joel. We're covering only five minutes

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at a time, which is about to link with the song,

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so it works out kind of nicely. So please join

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us as we dive into some new lyrics today.

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Speaker 2: All right, guys, so here are the topics that we're

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going to be covering today.

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Speaker 1: Joseph Stalin, Mallenkough and naserv okay d. What can you

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tell me about Justice Stalin if you didn't know, was

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the leader of the Soviet Union for decades. Came along

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after Lennon in nineteen fifty three, he and his inner

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circle of folks decided to have a party. Now, his

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inner circle still feared him because he was one of

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the worst human being in the history of the world.

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Uh huh. He is known to have murdered or had

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sent to the Gulag, sent to Siberia, not hundreds, not thousands,

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but millions. As it turned out in nineteen fifty three.

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His paranoia found its focus on doctors. He thought that

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the doctors were trying to kill people, and there was

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a big plot, and so a lot of doctors were

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imprisoned and tortured. Right as a matter of fact, his

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own private physician this night that he's having this party

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with his inner circle, is being tortured in his basement.

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So he is with these guys. Khrushchev is one of

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the guys. Bera is one of the guys. Maltov is

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one of the guys. Maltov. You recognize that name, Maltov cocktail,

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You got it. So Maltov was a propaganda guy, and

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so he announced on the radio that they were dropping

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food packages to the Fins, when what they were actually

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dropping were incendiary bombs. And so the Fins said, okay,

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I guess this must be Maltov bread baskets. Well, when

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they fought back, they would have the bottles with the

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incendiary devices in them that they would hurl at the

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Soviet tanks, and they said, we need a drink to

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go along with our Maltov bread. So this will be

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our Molotov cocktail. And that's how that name came to

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be well at four am. Finally, after all of this partying,

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everybody goes home and Stalin tells his staff, I'm exhausted.

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Do not come into my room unless you hear me

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moving around and I'm awake. Okay, Well, they didn't hear him,

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and they still didn't hear him, and they still didn't

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hear him. And if you know Stalin, like everybody knows him,

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you don't want to break his rules. So finally, a

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housekeeper who had been with him for years is tasked

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with going in and checking on him. When she goes in,

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she sees him lying on the floor, breathing but unresponsive,

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and soaking in his own piss. She calls his inner circle,

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who come back, and they don't know what to do.

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They don't do anything for nearly twenty four hours except

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sit him on a couch and wait and see what happens.

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When they finally call the doctors in, the doctors are terrible.

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They're shaking with fear about this Stalin waking up and

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then doing something horrible to them, so they don't know

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what to do. They start calling on the doctors who

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are actually in prison. Hey, can you help us out here?

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I who realized this guy stuck in here in tortured you,

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but can you help us save him? He, after five

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days of suffering, ultimately dies And I gotta tell you,

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it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Tell me

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about Malankov.

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Speaker 2: So that goes right into my story on Georgie Malakoff.

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He was a Soviet politician who briefly succeeded Joseph Stalin

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on March the fifth of nineteen fifty three as the

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leader of the Soviet Union. Now he had some personal

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connection to Vladimir Lenin that allowed him to propel his career,

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and because he became the overseer of records, he got

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to know Joseph Stalin. He was deeply involved in the

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Great Party Purge in the nineteen thirties, and then when

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Stalin died in nineteen fifty three, he became the leader

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of the Soviet Union. After a few weeks, he was

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forced to yield his position to Nikita Khrushchev. He later

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tried to organize a coup against Krushie and was expelled

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from the Communist Party altogether. He served the remaining years

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of his life as the manager of a hydro electric plant,

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and as Stalin's collaborator, I would say that he also

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has the blood of millions upon his head. All right,

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d well, can you tell me about Nasar?

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Speaker 1: Okay? So, Nasar is Gamal abdel Nasser. If you are

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from Egypt, you might look upon this guy as kind

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of the George Washington of the modern Egypt. He rose

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through military ranks. Obviously, Egypt had a very tumultuous history.

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One of the things that occurred was the Anglo Egyptian

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Treaty of nineteen thirty six, in which the United Kingdom

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had the right to maintain its military forces in the

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Suez Canal zone. That's going to come up here in

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a little bit. You got Nassar was part of a

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political group and a police and military group that ultimately

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had a revolution. What happened was on the twenty fifth

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of January nineteen fifty two, there were repeated at suicide

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bombers those type of things on the British forces occupying

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the Suez Canal. Seven thousand British soldiers then came and

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attacked the main police station in Canal City, is Malia.

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What resulted then was a huge riot where the buyers

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were started all over Cairo left seventy six people dead.

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But afterwards Nasser published a simple six point program to

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dismantle the feudalist government and British influence in Egypt. Soon

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he made that happen. He ultimately became the second president

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of Egypt and put together a bunch of the disparate

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Arab countries into what became known as the United Arab Republic. Ultimately,

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around nineteen seventy, everything kind of fell apart. That's awesome.

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That's something I'd never heard of before. Yeah, Okay, guys,

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that does it for today's episode. Join us next time

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for five minutes of fire