Communists focus on “social danger” and not personal guilt.

It’s as if Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn knew in 1973 what would happen to the USA in 2021 under the Biden administration: …the heart of the matter is not personal guilt, but social danger. One can imprison an innocent person if he is socially hostile. And one can release a guilty man if he is socially friendly. …

The Soviet Union’s Ministry of State Security had its own cancel culture.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn recognized that the Ministry of State Security–the Organs–in the Soviet Union purged members regularly and explained why they did this: The waves were generated by the Organs’ hidden law of self-renewal–a small periodic ritual sacrifice so that the rest could take on the appearance of being purified. The Organs had to change personnel …

Communism dehumanizes individuals.

Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about political interrogations of orthodox Communists in the time of Joseph Stalin: If you are an orthodox Communist, then another orthodox Communist will sidle up to you, peering about with hostile suspicion, and he’ll begin to whisper in your ear so that the uninitiated cannot overhear: “It’s our duty …

Soviet-style detention of those present at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021

Julie Kelly has written about the detention of those present in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The U.S. Department of Justice has kept all arrestees — even those charged with no violent crimes — in solitary confinement in a squalid D.C. jail for 23 hours a day for many months. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote …

Marxism today replaces class with race.

The self-avowed Marxists who founded Black Lives Matter have replaced Joseph Stalin’s “What is his class?” with “What is his race?” today. As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote: The theoretical view of the suspect’s guilt was, incidentally, quite elastic from the very beginning. In his instructions on the use of Red Terror, the Chekist M. I. Latsis …

Social-media sites beat Joseph Stalin in mind control of the masses.

Joseph Stalin issued circa 1950 a decree on revealing state secrets, as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote: There was a good-sized wave from the new Decree on Revealing State Secrets. (State secrets included such things as: the district harvest; any figure on epidemics; the type of goods produced by any workshop or mini-factory; mention of a civil …

COVID-19 masks are hand-clapping for the masses.

Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un gets near-unending applause from North Korean audiences in 2021. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote something similar about Joseph Stalin’s USSR audiences in the 1930s: Here is one vignette from those years as it actually occurred. A district Party conference was under way in Moscow Province. It was presided over by a new secretary …