Prager University has teamed up with The American Spectator’s editor, Paul Kengor, for a special six-part video series on history’s worst dictators. The “Hall of Evil” series launched on Feb. 3 with the first installment on Bolshevik dictator Vladimir Lenin (click here). A new installment will be released each Monday morning through mid-March, with Lenin followed by Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot.
Kengor talked about how the series came about and how impressed he was with the PragerU operation. “In 2018, I had done a video for PragerU on Karl Marx,” recalls Kengor. “I was blown away by the response. The video has 5 million views on the PragerU site and another 3.35 million on YouTube. Prager University has an enormous impact.”
The Prager staff was pleased with the response and enjoyed working with Kengor. “They told me, ‘Let’s do this again in the not-so-distant future,’” said Kengor. “Last year, they came to me with the idea of doing six videos in what we initially called a ‘Worst Dictators’ series. They eventually changed the name to the ‘Hall of Evil,’ which I think is brilliant.”
Kengor and the Prager team spent four days together last June writing and reviewing scripts and recording the videos in a Pittsburgh TV studio. “They’re an incredible operation — state of the art,” said Kengor. “They have decades of experience in film, TV, Hollywood. The final products attest to that. They’re amazing.”
Kengor says that a driving motivation for the series is to educate young people about history’s worst villains, especially communist dictators from the 20th century. “It should be no surprise that nearly all of the thugs that we profile were Marxist despots,” says Kengor. “Unfortunately, that will be a surprise to young people educated in our terrible K-12 government schools and our hideous left-wing universities, where ‘diversity’ is hailed but not taught when it comes to diversity of ideas. They’ve been taught that communism is a good idea — all about sharing wealth and helping the poor.” (RELATED: Marxist Women’s Day)
Kengor adds that no one will be surprised by the inclusion of Hitler in the “Hall of Evil,” but he expects resistance from admirers of the likes of Fidel Castro. “Our higher-ed indoctrination centers have tried to create heroes out of the likes of Fidel and his murderous little toady Che Guevara,” says Kengor. “But Fidel was evil (as was his buddy Che). He has earned a rightful place in our Hall of Evil. As have the other killers: Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Pol Pot.”
Kengor says that he’s “happy to join PragerU in providing this crucial remedial history education. We need to help educate the millions of misled and duped Americans who failed to learn these things at their awful government schools and their over-priced, massive rip-off, corrupt, one-sided, secular universities.”
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