Engaging Communism for Its Evil ☭
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 …
Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about the death rate among Joseph Stalin’s slave laborers building the Belomor Canal versus the way that a local newspaper described their effort: They say that in the first winter, 1931-1932, 100,000 died off–a number equal to the number of those who made up the full working force on …
Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn parenthetically wrote about Joseph Stalin’s attitude toward horses when he described in The Gulag Archipelago how Stalin got a canal constructed: The country required the canal so urgently and in such haste that it could not even find any wheelbarrow wheels for the project! It would have been too difficult …
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Communist-want-to-be’s today use urgency to promote their projects — everything from the Netherlands government rushing in its attempt to take over Dutch farms to American elites lying to the public about the need for masks in response to the Wuhan virus. Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about how Joseph Stalin used urgency to clear …
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