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James Deuce
4th August 2008, 21:10
So long, and thanks for all the Gulag.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7540038.stm
Swoop
4th August 2008, 21:28
A brave, brave man.
Pussy
4th August 2008, 21:53
A good and brave man. RIP, Alexander
Wally Simmonds
4th August 2008, 21:55
Three posts? Shit!

For some reason I thought this was where all the intelligentsia hung out

RIP, dude. Made for some interesting English class discussions.
Skyryder
4th August 2008, 23:14
Three posts? Shit!

For some reason I thought this was where all the intelligentsia hung out

RIP, dude. Made for some interesting English class discussions.


I only lasted half way through the Brothers Karamozov. Heavy shit I tell ya.


Read Gulag. Bad place to be.


Skyryder
alanzs
5th August 2008, 10:48
RIP! Gulag was a great book and quite controversial for its time.
Swoop
5th August 2008, 11:00
Three posts? Shit!

For some reason I thought this was where all the intelligentsia hung out

RIP, dude. Made for some interesting English class discussions.

I imagine the books sitting on the library shelves, with a large layer of dust on top of them...
Wasted on kiwis.


The other end of the spectrum of gulag life is interesting. The German POW's kept in Russia after the war and how they were treated...
Eric Hartmann's book makes superb reading.
kerfufflez
5th August 2008, 16:36
I only lasted half way through the Brothers Karamozov. Heavy shit I tell ya.


Skyryder

(I know you didn't actually state it, but) Solzhenitsyn didn't write that. Dostoevsky did.

I have to say given all that he lived through and experienced, he lived far longer than I would have expected. RIP.
alanzs
5th August 2008, 17:03
I have to say given all that he lived through and experienced, he lived far longer than I would have expected. RIP.

Truer words were never spoken. He tolerated things which are unimaginable. Thats why I laugh when people call NZ a commie/fascist state. Oh fucking grow up! :argh:
Skyryder
5th August 2008, 20:32
(I know you didn't actually state it, but) Solzhenitsyn didn't write that. Dostoevsky did.



I though he wrote Brothers Grim. :bash: :killingme



Skyryder
Street Gerbil
5th August 2008, 20:44
RIP.
Gulag Archipelago was frightening, but Cancer Ward still gives me chills. Especially after I found a bump forgive my french on one of my balls. Turned out nothing, but...
Storm
5th August 2008, 23:09
RIP a man who spoke up. Many didnt, and many didnt survive doing so
Skyryder
6th August 2008, 09:18
RIP.
Gulag Archipelago was frightening, but Cancer Ward still gives me chills. Especially after I found a bump forgive my french on one of my balls. Turned out nothing, but...

I was trying to remember the Solzhenyitsen book I read. It was Cancer Ward. Agreed with your comments.


Skyyrder
Street Gerbil
6th August 2008, 10:32
Truer words were never spoken. He tolerated things which are unimaginable. Thats why I laugh when people call NZ a commie/fascist state. Oh fucking grow up! :argh:
The same goes for the US. I have never seen society as tolerant to dissent and general trouble-making, with a possible exception of New Zealand, but some morons bitch and moan about it being a 1984.