Part 4 of more, see my profile for previous. This is commentary on section 4 and 5 of Article 58 of the Criminal Code of 1926 in Communist Russia from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago. I'll add bold text for emphasis here and there.

"Section 4 spoke about (fantastic!) aid to the international bourgeoisie. To whom, one wonders, could this possibly refer? And yet broadly interpreted, and with the help of revolutionary conscience, it was easy to find categories: All émigrés who had left the country before 1920, i.e., several years before the Code was ever written, and whom our armies came upon in Europe a quarter-century later-- in 1944 and 1945 --received 58-4: ten years or execution, what could they have been doing abroad other than aiding the international bourgeoisie? (In the example of the young people's musical society already cited, we have seen that the international bourgeoisie could also be aided from inside the U.S.S.R.) They were, in addition, aided by all SR's, all Mensheviks (the section was drafted with them in mind), and, subsequently, by the engineers of the State Planning Commission and the Supreme Council of the Economy.

Section 5 was inciting a foreign state to declare war against the U.S.S.R. A chance was missed to apply this section against Stalin and his diplomatic and military circle in 1940-1941. Their blindness and insanity led to just that. Who if not they drove Russia into shameful, unheard-of defeats, incomparably worse than the defeats of Tsarist Russia in 1904 or 1915? Defeats such as Russia had never known since the thirteenth century. "

Part 3 of more, see my profile for previous. This is section 2 and 3 of the Article. I'll add bold text for emphasis here and there.

"Section 2 listed armed rebellion, seizure of power in the capital or in the provinces especially for the purpose of severing any part of the U.S.S.R. through the use of force. For this the penalties ranged up to and included execution (as in every succeeding section).

This was expanded to mean something which could not be explicitly stated in the article itself but which revolutionary sense of justice could be counted on to suggest: it applied to every attempt of any national republic to act upon its right to leave the U.S.S.R. After all, the word "force" is not defined in terms of whom it applies to. Even when the entire population of the republic wants to secede, if Moscow is opposed, the attempted secession will be 'forcible.' Thus, all Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, and Turkestan nationalists very easily recieved their tens and twenty-fives under this section.

Section 3 was 'assisting in any way or by any means a foreign state at war with the U.S.S.R.' ****This section made it possible to condemn any citizen who had been in occupied territory **** --whether he had nailed on the heel of a German soldier's shoe or sold him a bunch of radishes. And it could be applied to any citizens who had helped lift the fighting spirit of an enemy soldier by dancing and spending the night with him. Not everyone was actually sentenced under this section-- because of the huge numbers who had been in occupied territory. But everyone who had been in occupied territory could have been sentenced under it."

Part 2 of more, see my profile for previous. This is section 1. I'll add bold text for emphasis here and there.

"Article 58 consisted of fourteen sections. In Section 1 we learn that any action (and, according to Aritcle 6 of the Criminal Code, any absence of action) directed toward the weakening of state power was considered to be counterrevolutionary.

Broadly interpreted, this turned out to include the refusal of prisoner camp work when in a state of starvation and exhaustion. This was a weakening of state power. And it was punished by execution.(The execution of malingerers during the war.)

From 1934 on, when we were given back the term Motherland, subsections were inserted on treason to the Motherland- 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d. According to these subsections, all actions directed against the military might of the U.S.S.R. were punishable by execution (1b), or by ten years' imprisonment (1a), but the lighter penalty was imposed only when mitigating circumstances were present and upon civilians only.

Broadly interpreted: when our soldiers were sentenced to only 10 years for allowing themselves to be taken prisoner (actions injurious to Soviet military might) this was humanitarian to the point of being illegal. According to the Stalinist code, they should all have been shot on their return home. ... One important additional broadening of the section on treason was its application 'via Article 19 of the Criminal Code'--'via intent.' In other words, no treason had taken place; but the interrogator envisioned an intention to betray--- and that was enough to justify a full term, the same as for actual treason. True, Article 19 proposes that there be no penalty for intent, but only for preparation, but given a dialectical reading one can understand intention as preparation. And 'preparation is punished in the same way [i.e., with the same penalty] as the crime itself.'(Criminal Code).

In general, 'we draw no distinction between intention and the crime itself, and this is an instance of the superiority of Soviet legislation to bourgeois legislation.'"

I'm going to post a small portion of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago over the next few days; specifically, all fourteen sections of Article 58, the Criminal Code of 1926 in communist Russia, as written in the book starting with the preface to the listed sections. I think its more digestible this way, each short excerpt is very impactful especially considering popular mainstream rhetoric today. I will add some emphasis with bold here and there, or some small context in parentheses. "Paradoxically enough, every act of the all-penetrating, eternally wakeful Organs(gov't programs), over a span of many years, was based solely on ONE article of the 140 articles of the nongeneral division of the Criminal Code of 1926.* One can find more epithets in praise of this article than Turgenev once assembled to praise the Russian language, or Nekrasov to praise Mother Russia: great, powerful, abundant, highly ramified, multiform, wide-sweeping 58, which summed up the world not so much through the exact terms of it sections as in their extended dialectical interpretation. Who among us has not experienced its all-encompassing embrace? In all truth, there is no step, thought, action, or lack of action under the heavens which could not be punished by the heavy hand of Article 58. The article itself could not be worded in such broad terms, but it proved possible to interpret it this broadly. Article 58 was not in that division of the Code dealing with political crimes; and nowhere was it categorized as "political." No. It was included, with crimes against public order and organized gangsterism, in a division of "crimes against the state." Thus the Criminal Code starts off by refusing to recognize anyone under its jurisdiction as a political offender. All are simply criminals."

This is the turn of the tide pedes! Every friend or relative you know has now by default, been switched to a defensive stance now that their pedophi-- alzheimers patien-- Crony croo-- guy is in charge!

Press them. Raise questions about big tech, intersectionality, gun control, war in the middle east; kitchen table, moderate issues. They now have to justify every action the government takes.

It won't be long before the mental gymnastics become untenable and they come around, boys.

GRAB YOUR BRICKS PEDES, WE'RE STILL BUILDING. WE'RE BUILDING A BIG, BEAUTIFUL AMERICA FIRST MOVEMENT FROM THE GROUND UP. IM PUMPED, LETS GET BUILDING.