First reference ive seen on here to the Gulag Archipelago aside from my own references. I'm on here, other platforms, and in real life shouting from the hill tops that everyone needs to read that book before it's memory-holed and digitally burned. There are lots of comparisons of what's going on now to what Hitler dead. This comparison is wrong. What's happening now is what happened in the USSR after the October Revolution. We're in the equivalent of 1917.
Solzhenitsyn was right about seemingly all, so to say "Solzhenitsyn right," is a pretty broad statement. In what regards of his correctness are you referring?
In just about every page he spoke of the organs doing THIS right here-and the masses looking the other way. Running off to their business. Hoping to be unseen. Hoping that the knock won’t come on their door that night. The entire tome is a commentary on this age
Ah, so you were making a sweeping statement. I agree!! Everything that's happening is exactly what happened in the USSR from cancelling, putting incompetent looters- this is an Atlas Shrugged reference which is also very relevant now- in charge of camp work groups.
It’s funny-I say to students - medical students and residents - future doctors - “Who is John Galt” or “We need to find John Galt” and they all act like he is on the patient census! But yes, this is all too familiar with recent history. I mention Kolyma - even from the Russians - and I get blank stares. So sad they refuse to look from their phones to see it coming.
This is a good point and a caveat I always warn people of when I insist they read it. I have to actively concentrate on it. I'm listening to the unabridged audio book. Part of it could be because the sound quality isn't great since my copy was originally copied off cassette tapes, but I think it's just because it's dry historical accounts. It's breathtaking but it is a historical account of events that occurred. I think there's always a sort of dryness in that genre by default. It's a bit of a job almost at times to listen. Knowledge is potential power though, so it should be heard or read by all.
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you'd be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur — what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
You didn't read the book or listen to it because that makes no sense. You googled what it was and looked for some excerpts.
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Mods, take a look at this idiot's posts. They're anti-MAGA, combative trash. Today he's engaged in bashing Steven Crowder a lot and fighting with everyone. Another petulant, blue-haired, reddit / twatter rat.
First reference ive seen on here to the Gulag Archipelago aside from my own references. I'm on here, other platforms, and in real life shouting from the hill tops that everyone needs to read that book before it's memory-holed and digitally burned. There are lots of comparisons of what's going on now to what Hitler dead. This comparison is wrong. What's happening now is what happened in the USSR after the October Revolution. We're in the equivalent of 1917.
Solzhenitsyn was right about seemingly all, so to say "Solzhenitsyn right," is a pretty broad statement. In what regards of his correctness are you referring?
In just about every page he spoke of the organs doing THIS right here-and the masses looking the other way. Running off to their business. Hoping to be unseen. Hoping that the knock won’t come on their door that night. The entire tome is a commentary on this age
Ah, so you were making a sweeping statement. I agree!! Everything that's happening is exactly what happened in the USSR from cancelling, putting incompetent looters- this is an Atlas Shrugged reference which is also very relevant now- in charge of camp work groups.
I'm about to Atlas Shrug the fuck out of CA.
The communist experiment is falling apart
It’s funny-I say to students - medical students and residents - future doctors - “Who is John Galt” or “We need to find John Galt” and they all act like he is on the patient census! But yes, this is all too familiar with recent history. I mention Kolyma - even from the Russians - and I get blank stares. So sad they refuse to look from their phones to see it coming.
Great book, but a hard read. The way he describes what happened is legitimately chilling and depressing. Necessary book though.
I listened to it, the abridged version at that. Excellent book that needs to be MANDATORY reading.
We’re living through what he saw rn, in 2021. Communists have operated this way worldwide for a century
This is a good point and a caveat I always warn people of when I insist they read it. I have to actively concentrate on it. I'm listening to the unabridged audio book. Part of it could be because the sound quality isn't great since my copy was originally copied off cassette tapes, but I think it's just because it's dry historical accounts. It's breathtaking but it is a historical account of events that occurred. I think there's always a sort of dryness in that genre by default. It's a bit of a job almost at times to listen. Knowledge is potential power though, so it should be heard or read by all.
"I'm smart and require you to show you're smart too so I'm going to ask you to be more specific"
you're an idiot and obviously haven't read the book. Go back to reddit, scumbag.
You remind me of the professor on the train ride.
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You didn't read the book or listen to it because that makes no sense. You googled what it was and looked for some excerpts.
DEPORT
Mods, take a look at this idiot's posts. They're anti-MAGA, combative trash. Today he's engaged in bashing Steven Crowder a lot and fighting with everyone. Another petulant, blue-haired, reddit / twatter rat.