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"I agreed with you. In Theory. In Theory communism works." -Homer J. Simpson : D
Great work
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The point - I think you missed it.
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Coming soon to a front door near you:
"How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: What would things have been like if every police operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? If during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever was at hand? The organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, author of The Gulag Archipelago.
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being very far from a communist or a pro-soviet, I must say Solzhenitsyn's Archipelago is probably the most inadequate book about that time ever written. Solzhenitsyn has good and truthful books - it's just not one of them. he assumes too much, and where there's no room for assumption - he lies. unfortunately. good writer though.
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So what did he lie about?
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i suggest you can read his letters to Shalamov, where he admits to it - to the fact that he has very little camp experience and has to make things up in order for them to be more colorful. in the same letters he asks Shalamov to provide more info on what it actually is like in the camp - for a real 'zek'. because - and it is widely known - he was not treated in the camp the same way as others did, because he cooperated with the guards.
as for the text itself - there's more than enough written about. he lied about the numbers of prisoners (60 million is simply impossible. if there were 60 million prisoners, there must be 6 cities of the size of Moscow all over Siberia). then there are a lot of impossible points in the text, which were mostly revealed by other ex-prisoners. if you can read russian, you can just google it, there's more than enough reading on this topic.
and there's more than that - certain hypocrisy that you can see im many episodes. for example, take the episode of the zek rebellion by Kapiton Kuznetsov, who earlier was set free by the government, but rather remained in the camp when the rebellion was about to begin. the authour denies him to be a leader of the rebellion because Kapiton really believed in what he's doing. he does not explain the reasons why. however, he claims that the only reason Kapiton remained in the camp was in order to spy on the fellow zeks and tell everything to the NKVD. later, as we learn from the text, when they went up to surpress the opposition, Kapiton stayed on the barricades till the end, supporting other zeks. obviously, everyone got executed later. the author claims that the only reason Kapiton remained on the barricades is because he was afraid to be laughed at.
think about it. the guy was free already. yet he remained with the fellows and fought till the end and actually died for them. still, the only explanation Solzhenitsyn finds is that he was in fact a 'bitch', a spy and a traitor. probably, he just can not imagine an ex-soviet officer to be a decent man.
in fact, Solzhenitsyn was not even there to see the rebellion. he had cancer and was urgently hospitalized outside of the camp when the rebellion started. he got the news about the rebellion from other people, like Kekushev, who's actually been there and saw the whole thing, and "recreated the setting" in the novel. still, however, Kekushev did not consider Kuznetsov a traitor and thought him to be an honest man, which he himself writes in his own book about his camp experience.
this is just an example. there are a lot of episodes like that in the text. again, there'smore than enough reading on the misinformation of the novel both in Russian and English.
(sorry if there's too many typos)
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Can you provide me some english links on this? What keywords should I search for?
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well, you can look for his letters to Shalamov, you'll find A LOT of interesting stuff... if they're translated... also, try finding the articles by ex-zeks about the book.
a lot of those things I just happen to know because a friend of mine is a specialist in the prison camp literature, and actually knew Solzhenitsyn personally. when he told me about all that misinformation in the text, I was... well, surprised. and defended the authour, because he is still a genius writer. however, when he later showed me the actual stuff in the text... well... that was sad...
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I think this font used in more artistic manner than in propaganda way 'cos it should be good readable but it does not so well...
And this "serp i molot" cliche is old and used so many times in 90's.
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Communism is a utopian (unrealistic) idea if only because it requires human beings not having any competition or desire for independence.
Everyone has to stay in their place.
Not in our nature. Never will be.
Nice work!
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well. maybe one day. will take thousands of years - just like Marx initially thought - to clear human consciousness from thinking that self and the other are two.
hope, you know.
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Getting past the idea of self requires evolving past survival instinct in its most basic form. We're too naturally inclined to make sure we take our next breath.
In my opinion, the true idea of communism would require everyone feeling like they're appreciated and recognized.
It would require a constant universal communication of ideas between the populus, so that everyone would feel like they're in the loop.
And, the gap of material wealth and enjoyment therein would have to narrow dramatically. No obscenely rich people getting everything they want, no obscenely poor people struggling to even get a meal.
There's a whole laundry list of things from social to cultural to biological that prevent it from working right now.
True cooperation on that scale likely wouldn't happen unless there was a threat to everyone's individual safety outside of anything human beings can handle on a country-to-country basis, then everyone would be forced into cooperation to ensure their own survival, and a balance of mutual understanding might evolve from there.
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What is not real is your opinion.
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Reality is perception.
No one can ever know what's real beyond their own ideas of what appears real to them.
Which inherently makes a statement of questionable reality a moot point.
For all you know, I'm a figment of your imagination. In what I perceive as reality, human nature has (for all of man's time) dictated a survival instinct that inevitably overrules selfless cooperation.
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Хорошая работа (nice work)
Забавно (funny)
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not communist but marxist.
Much of the people that say bullshit is 'cose they where not touching freedom in their lives. Little projects that are self-managed in horitzontality and equality. But if we can grow this litlle projects, maybe one day can be free (not like capitalist way, that you are free 'cose in Congo dies 500.000 innocent people per year payed with money from Nokia and other Corporations).
Is a dificult think to do but watching thinks like this helps to grow the sense that it can be possible.
sorry for the low english
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Great in theory...it just breaks down in practice. Nice art though.
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That's what she said.
Eh, doesn't actually fit here.
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Say something in Russian!
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Некогда не покину ДевиентАрт
(Nekogda ne pokinu DeviantArt)
I'll Never leave DeviantArt
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Wow! This is the perfect slogan for Obama's campaign I have ever seen! You should send this one in to the White House for the big win! LOL
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ho my god , stop smoking I don't know what , obama has nothing in common with communism , a perfect right-wing capitalist , go away read some books and learn about ideologies , incult yankee
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Very nice message and the simplicity of the design is wonderful ^^
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