Historian and commentator Bill Whittle sat down recently with The Daily Signal to discuss the latest season of “What We Saw,” a critically acclaimed documentary series from The Daily Wire.
In the new season, called “Empire of Terror,” Whittle picks apart the largely unknown history of the rise of the Soviet Union and how it translates to today. He unearths critical pieces of information that shatter any case for communism.
Although many claim that Vladimir Lenin’s vision for communism was pure, a will of the people that was only corrupted later by Josef Stalin’s ruthless regime, Whittle illustrates a severely different picture.
“I didn’t finish with Lenin until the end of episode six—it’s hardly about Stalin at all, and the reason is because [the Soviets’ empire of terror] is not Stalin’s creation. It’s Lenin’s creation,” he said, adding:
