Engaging Communism for Its Evil ☭
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago covers in great detail how Joseph Stalin had his Chief Prosecutor Krylenko go after engineers for the crime of “wrecking” the Soviet economy. Wrecking to Stalin and Krylenko could mean going too quickly on a project OR going too slowly on a project. President Joseph Biden wrecked the the …
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Joseph Stalin purportedly said, “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
The consequences of woke cultural authoritarianism are real, and they are devastating. They range from job loss to social ostracism. Americans live in fear of the moment when a personal enemy dredges up a Bad Old Tweet™ or members of the media “resurface” an impolitic comment in a text message. … Silence used to be …
Anne Appelbaum wrote about kulaks in her book about Joseph Stalin’s war on Ukraine. The first sentence in her quotation of a memoir about the Russian Revolution says it all: What Dolot had witnessed was the beginning of “dekulakization”–the ugly, bureaucratic term that was shorthand for the “elimination of the kulaks as a class.” But …
Joe Stalin, meet Joe Biden.
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 …
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 …
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