I just started with the The Gulag Archipelago and in the chapter about arresting people there's a story about a mother of an infant who got arrested and the baby (~2y/o) was left alone in the apartment. The neighbor, another woman realized this so she took the baby to the NKVD station to ask what is she supposed to do with it. The police captain realized he still had a quota of people to be sent to work camps for 10+ years to fill that day so he arrested the neighbor too "because you are already here".
Its a wonderful book, and Solzhenitsyn is a Pulitzer prize winning author. I've been reading on and off got a couple months. You also look for a translation of his book "200 Years Together", Soviet Union/Communism was truly hell on earth.
Jaxon Gutierrez
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Logan Watson
Never happened. And she was probably a kulak anyway.
Ryan Phillips
Anyone else got stuff for Holla Forums show and tell
Isaac Gomez
Damn guys, I'm starting to question all this "socialism" thing now.
Nathaniel Gonzalez
Me too guy, I even read this one story
This anti-government guy was rallying support and general causing a ruckus in his city, so the gov't burst into his home and shot him in his bed, and later went back to fake a shootout so they had public justification in killing him.
lmfao. Solzhenitsyn wanted to avoid being shot for desertion during WWII. That was his Heroic Sacrifice for FREEDUMBS: get several years of exile political prisoners were getting instead of actually going to war.
And then he proceeded to write some bullshit stories about Soviet gulags. His life was literally saved in those "death camps": he got diagnosed with cancer early enough to get him cured. That was early 1950s, kids. How many prisons got regular medical checkups and sufficiently competent medicine. But what did he write about? He wrote about three soldiers executing two hundred prisoners by making a campfire and ordering prisoners to jump in there and burn to death. Why? Because Khruschev wanted to justify his anti-Stalinist purges with some bullshit stories about Evil Stalin. This is how the Glorious Writer was born. When Khruschev got deposed, the poor Solzhenitsyn lost favor of the Party and USSR immediately became "The Biggest Prison". When that twat got kicked out of USSR, he started literally campaigning for nuking USSR off the face of the planet. The twat was supporting and promoting killing hundreds of millions of people, because he was no longer living there and there were money to be made on anti-Soviet propaganda.
Liam Green
Okay. Even if we assume this happened, how does this invalidate socialism (Worker's ownership and democratic management of the means of production)? And how is this an argument against socialist initiatives (Rojava, Zapatistas, etc.) that do not abide by the (late) Soviet system?
(Heil'd) Checking those Hitler dubs.
Josiah Hughes
Source fam? Sounds potentially legit & bourgie but I wanna see if this checks out
Blake Brooks
Don't forget his pro-Nazi sympathies either.
Hunter Hall
Hey Eddie Limonov, fuck you for creating the cancer that is NazBols. Even if you are a great writer I can't forgive you for those meme loving fucks.
Carson Sanders
Absolutely kill yourself. Also your image doesn't understand the difference between personal and private property.
Michael Thompson
you know that book is a fiction right?
Christopher Jones
Solzhenitzyn should have been shot. He served as yet another pawn for Western capitalists to denounce the evil USSR through writing fanfiction while blaming Stalin for WW2 And blaming the millions of death on him. Of course once the Soviet Union vanished he was no longer useful so he fell out of fame since he was an obvious fascist. I would post the source right now but I am on phone.
Adam Nelson
I was just reading this on libcom.org about the war against the communist/socialist movements in South America and the right-wing pro-capitalist death squads funded by the CIA.
IMO, "possessions vs property" is a more immediately-meaningful distinction than "personal property vs private property"
Luis Lee
I'm aware of these stories and they're precisely why I support communism.
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Elijah Hill
I'm not a tankie by any means and Stalin apologists really get under my skin, but I'll say you should really take Solzhenitsyn with a pinch of salt. He was a talented writer but also a trainwreck of an intellectual and a religiously-motivated reactionary to boot.
You want to play books? ok…In pic related there's a woman who says and i will paraphrase because i can't remember the exact quote: "People say Stalin was bad, but Stalin didn't sent hardworking like me or my husband to the gulag, only criminals were sent."
Juan Perez
the only mistake the general secretary of the SKP(b) made was that he didn't kill enough people.
If he had killed more people we wouldn't have all of these fashie cucks and christian cocksuckers running around.
James Phillips
I am. Google Murray Bookchin
Caleb Gutierrez
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Juan Smith
And that baby's name? Albert Einstein. Later, that kid got arrested in kindergarten for stealing candy. The snitch was his own evil twin brother. The toddler's name? George Soros.
Samuel Jones
Stop trying to hide your stupidity and ignorance behind a dictator. Stalin might have done bad shit but to equate the soviet union to a slave state is fucking retarded, all you are doing is making a front for Holla Forums and liberals, validating their vilification of communism.
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Jaxon Stewart
You can use what terminology you want, it means the same thing. Though your version is certainly less confusing.
Carter Gutierrez
kek'd and cheka'd
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Jaxon Hughes
I love how Holla Forums makes fun of the ridiculous stories in Night but takes The Gulag Archipelago as gospel truth.
Dylan Thomas
the fact that a cunt like solzhenitsyn didn't get purged right off the bat says enough really
don't reactionary cucks always say 'you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide'? the same can be said about the USSR
btw OP, only a select few people here actually like the soviet union, but that doesn't mean we endorse fake stories
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Jeremiah Morris
Remember that time a sitting American president forcefully and illegally removed natives from their rightful land resulting in thousands dead in what basically amounted to genocide, and they rewarded him by putting him on the twenty dollar bill? That was pretty great.
Mason Howard
really makes you think
Jason Hall
For some the soviet union was indeed a slave state. Stop clinging to shitty state-capitalist nation states as an example of functioning socialism faggot
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Colton Sanchez
Even better he's the poster boy for "a president of the people" even though he was a swindling land speculator
Blake Hernandez
It's so weird to me that everything about Holocaust books the retards will dismiss completely as lies and shit but the Gulag Archipelago is considered the be biblical truth.
Is that cognitive dissonance or am I messing up my fallacies?
Luis Torres
Didn't know Bookchin was so polemic and shallow. Bordiga's view of stalinism is much clearer.
It would be more appropriate to compare the Holocaust to the Holodomor.
Jeremiah Fisher
While his own theory is okay-ish, Bookchin sucks massive donkey balls when it comes to historical analysis and geopolitics. He also was a staunch defender of Israel.
