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 …
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Joe Stalin, meet Joe Biden.
Joe Stalin, meet Joe Biden.
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 …
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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 …
A #Communist praises Joseph Stalin for being a great listener? Of course!
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 …
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