I read it after hearing Petersen recommend it. It's horrific. I had to put it down for days following each chapter, but I resolved that if the Commies ever take over they won't get me past the arrest. I'll go out fighting so hard they'll have to put a bullet in my brain before I ever get to the interrogation.
great but i wish there were a way to save this and continue later. plus it's on cassette audiobook format. is there a way to get a podcast or downloadable version somewhere?
It bugs me that he hasn't said something like this yet. Solzhenitsyn's message is basically "fight back before it's too late." At some point, it's too late.
+1 on Gulag Archipelago.
Not a 'light read'..600+ pages.. HIGHLY recommend it.
What is described in the books first chapters is very similar to what is taking place in the US right now... the remaining chapters outline what is in store for us if we don't stop it.
Do yourself a favor and at least research it. You can find lots of videos/summaries online (many Pedes already posted links to start your journey).
This. Gulag is quite a long read, whereas Ivan Denisovich is a short read. You'll never eat soup the same way again after reading that one.
For an American twist on the gulags, read The Forsaken by Tim Tzouliadis (sp?). Great read about Americans who get caught up in gulag system (many of whom have written their own accounts - Alexander Dolgun's is a good read) and the complete sorry fucks the Roosevelt Administration was in helping. (Apologies for the language, but that book will make your blood boil at times...)
Lol...I see John Candy talking at the beginning of boot camp in "Stripes" -- "you've got what, an 8 week program here, that's perfect for me. I'm gonna walk out of here a lean, mean, fighting machine." Zolzhenitsyn -- "you've got a 10 year program here...."
I read the abridged version last year. There were parts that actually made me tear up. The way people were treated... It's ungodly. It should be required reading in high school before people go to cultural Marxist universities.
Normies arent going to read books. Just watch The Chekist. Whoda thunk i got innoculated from communism from a tower records video rental when i was mohawk-haired 19 year old with a tongue ring and spiked leather collar?
A statesman who wants to achieve something important and highly constructive for his country has to move cautiously and even timidly. There are thousands of hasty and irresponsible critics around him; parliament and the press keep rebuffing him. As he moves ahead, he has to prove that each single step of his is well-founded and absolutely flawless. Actually, an outstanding and particularly gifted person who has unusual and unexpected initiatives in mind hardly gets a chance to assert himself. From the very beginning, dozens of traps will be set out for him. Thus, mediocrity triumphs with the excuse of restrictions imposed by democracy.
Wow. That paragraph describes our government pre-Trump
Great book. Got the abridged version for Christmas a few years ago and finished reading it last year. I'm a good reader, but the topic was so heavy handed that it took me a while to finish the book. I marked it up with a lot of parallels and good quotes. Should really be mandatory reading.
I may have just blocked you ... sorry. Hit the wrong button.
Anyhow, yes, I’ve listened (audio books) to all three parts. I am not sure I would recommend it. It is very long and very repetitive but it definitely informs you on how things were.
If you buy, don’t buy from Amazon. Free here: https://archive.org/details/TheGulagArchipelago-Threevolumes
Foreward here read by Jordan Peterson: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/10/31/jordan_peterson_reads_foreward_to_the_gulag_archipelago_50th_anniversary.html#!
Desperate times, desperate measures...censorship is back in vogue! Luckily we have better means to archive and save, offline.
I read it after hearing Petersen recommend it. It's horrific. I had to put it down for days following each chapter, but I resolved that if the Commies ever take over they won't get me past the arrest. I'll go out fighting so hard they'll have to put a bullet in my brain before I ever get to the interrogation.
great but i wish there were a way to save this and continue later. plus it's on cassette audiobook format. is there a way to get a podcast or downloadable version somewhere?
YouTube saves the last position for random videos for me.
Hero of the thread here. Thanks!
I don’t have the twitter - did Trump tweet this? Is it old? Can’t seem to find it but now is certainly the right time.
Read post title carefully.... OP proposed it as an idea for Trump to tweet
Fuck...thanks...I’m slacking today, 2nd mistake by not reading...
Gulag Archipelago should be pinned.
For those who don't love to read. https://youtu.be/ccASsjhhgP8
Thanks. I used to love to read, but eye strain is real...😬
It bugs me that he hasn't said something like this yet. Solzhenitsyn's message is basically "fight back before it's too late." At some point, it's too late.
CNN: OMG, Solzhenitsyn is RuSsIAN. See!
+1 on Gulag Archipelago. Not a 'light read'..600+ pages.. HIGHLY recommend it. What is described in the books first chapters is very similar to what is taking place in the US right now... the remaining chapters outline what is in store for us if we don't stop it.
Do yourself a favor and at least research it. You can find lots of videos/summaries online (many Pedes already posted links to start your journey).
This. Gulag is quite a long read, whereas Ivan Denisovich is a short read. You'll never eat soup the same way again after reading that one.
For an American twist on the gulags, read The Forsaken by Tim Tzouliadis (sp?). Great read about Americans who get caught up in gulag system (many of whom have written their own accounts - Alexander Dolgun's is a good read) and the complete sorry fucks the Roosevelt Administration was in helping. (Apologies for the language, but that book will make your blood boil at times...)
Lol...I see John Candy talking at the beginning of boot camp in "Stripes" -- "you've got what, an 8 week program here, that's perfect for me. I'm gonna walk out of here a lean, mean, fighting machine." Zolzhenitsyn -- "you've got a 10 year program here...."
PDF http://kkoworld.com/kitablar/aleksandr_soljenitsin_ivan_denisovichin_bir_gunu-eng.pdf
I read the abridged version last year. There were parts that actually made me tear up. The way people were treated... It's ungodly. It should be required reading in high school before people go to cultural Marxist universities.
I read that in 1985, after reading Marx. It ended that phase of my life pretty quickly.
Normies arent going to read books. Just watch The Chekist. Whoda thunk i got innoculated from communism from a tower records video rental when i was mohawk-haired 19 year old with a tongue ring and spiked leather collar?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chekist https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0103949/
They only read books when they are propped up and romanticizing a rich dude who’s a low key rapist
Recommended by Jordan Peterson. 50th anniversary edition has a foreword by him, as well. Go to Abebooks.com and support small used bookstores.
Also read Solzhenitsyn's 1978 address at Harvard. https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm
Wow. That paragraph describes our government pre-Trump
Free audio version here:
archive.org
Read it on my own in college. Completely changed my world view, and instilled in me a lifelong hatred of the Left.
Gulaghistory.org has some good information. Here is one of the short survivor tales I had my students watch: Pregnant in the gulag
1:18:27 https://youtu.be/UhNZuVSiWIM
Former USAF intel officer: “it’s time to move out to gods country and set up some claymores”
VERY long read.
I preordered the audio book long ago. Supposed to be released very soon
It's a long read. IMO, audiobook that shit!
Great book. Got the abridged version for Christmas a few years ago and finished reading it last year. I'm a good reader, but the topic was so heavy handed that it took me a while to finish the book. I marked it up with a lot of parallels and good quotes. Should really be mandatory reading.
I read the abridged version it was not that long and horrifying enough. I've been telling people to read it for 3 years now. No one has.
Also Atlas Shrugged, it's a tome but damn if it isn't predicting whats happening right now
I send books like these to my leftist relatives. I'm that horrible gift giver at Christmas :D
should i flair shitpost? seems pretty apparent what I am saying with the title
Nah, it says tweet idea, I knew what you meant.
Has anybody read all 3 parts? I think part 1 alone is 600 pages.
I may have just blocked you ... sorry. Hit the wrong button.
Anyhow, yes, I’ve listened (audio books) to all three parts. I am not sure I would recommend it. It is very long and very repetitive but it definitely informs you on how things were.
If this reply came through then I'm not blocked, hopefully. So would you say I only need to listen to part 1?