Engaging Communism for Its Evil ☭
Look at one of many examples that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn gave in The Gulag Archipelago for how the Soviet Union would condemn someone to many years in the Gulag as an “enemy of the people” for the most innocuous of “crimes”: A tailor laying aside his needle stuck it into a newspaper on the wall so …
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Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in The Gulag Archipelago how Gulag prisoners (“zeks”) modified everyday words to demonstrate to one another that nothing in the Archipelago was genuine to them: How much self-ridicule there is in this world! “We are . . . not the real thing!” The zek language dearly loves and makes …
Look what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in The Gulag Archipelago about how the Soviets extracted much extra labor from prisoners for little extra reward: Percentages above 100 conferred the right to supplementary spoonfuls of kasha (those previously taken away). What a merciless knowledge of human nature! Neither those pieces of bread nor those cereal patties were …
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Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in The Gulag Archipelago about the word “people”: “Have you fed the people?” “Have you sent the people out to work?” “How many people do you have there?” “Send me one person!” People, people, whom do they mean? That’s the way they talked about serfs. And that is how …
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Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in The Gulag Archipelago about a “useful idiot” judge: Oh, “what an intelligent, farsighted humane administration from top to bottom,” as Supreme Court Judge Leibowitz of New York State wrote in Life magazine, after having visited Gulag. “In serving out his term of punishment the prisoner retains a feeling …
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Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in The Gulag Archipelago about the “mobility” of prisoners in slave-labor camps: However, for the state there was no economic nor organizational sense in carrying out all this superfluous shifting about of some people from camp to the front, and some people to camp in their place. Everyone had …
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Soviet Legislation Publishers in 1936 published Ot Prestupleniya k Trudu (From Crime to Labor) by I. L. Averbakh. Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in The Gulag Archipelago about Averbakh’s view of slave laborers in the Soviet Union: Following in his teacher’s footsteps, Averbakh similarly elaborates: The task of Soviet corrective-labor policy is “the transformation …