So long, and thanks for all the Gulag.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7540038.stm
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So long, and thanks for all the Gulag.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7540038.stm
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
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A brave, brave man.
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A good and brave man. RIP, Alexander
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Originally Posted by PrincessBandit
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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.
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I only lasted half way through the Brothers Karamozov. Heavy shit I tell ya.
Read Gulag. Bad place to be.
Skyryder
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Revolution is in the air
RIP! Gulag was a great book and quite controversial for its time.
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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.
TOP QUOTE: “The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”
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(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.
Revolution is in the air
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!
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I though he wrote Brothers Grim.
Skyryder
Free Scott Watson.
The desert creature
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...
"People are stupid ... almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true ... they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so all are easier to fool." -- Wizard's First Rule
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RIP a man who spoke up. Many didnt, and many didnt survive doing so
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I was trying to remember the Solzhenyitsen book I read. It was Cancer Ward. Agreed with your comments.
Skyyrder
Free Scott Watson.
The desert creature
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.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!
"People are stupid ... almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true ... they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so all are easier to fool." -- Wizard's First Rule
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