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#solzhenitsyn

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Minoru Saba

Read "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" after Aleksandr #Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Can recall its matter of fact tone describing existence in a helpless situation.
Not sure if I want to re-read it over New Year's break even as an antidote to overindulgence.
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kuchinster
kuchinster schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Thu, 16 Nov 2023 13:31:40 +0100 Who Solzhenitsyn was
Semyon Badash's open letter to Solzhenitsyn, with whom he was in the same camp.
In 2003, Solzhenitsyn's fellow campmate Semyon Badash wrote him an "Open Letter" in which he accused Solzhenitsyn of deceit, snitching, and anti-Semitism.
"Semyon Badash's "Open Letter" published in the American émigré journal Vestnik, No. 15, 2003.
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Unfortunately, this is not the only case of your, to put it mildly, inadequate attitude towards your former friends, including people to whom you owe a lot. Ilya Zilberberg's book "A Necessary Conversation with Solzhenitsyn" (Ilya Zilberberg. 14 Colchster Vale. Forest Row. Sussex. Great Britain. 1976). Its author was friends with the Teusza family, who secretly kept your archive. After the Teusha's apartment became unreliable, they, going on vacation, gave it to Ilya Iosifovich Zilberberg. But by that time the Gebists had already tapped the Teushey's cell phone and knew everything in advance. On September 11, 1965, they raided Zilberberg's house, took the folder with your materials, after which both Teusch and Zilberberg were dragged for many weeks for interrogation.
Not only did you not take part in their fate, but you did not show up at Teusz's house for several months, and Zilberberg was even accused of cooperating with the GB. You, of course, were believed in dissident circles, after which this crystal-clear man lived for many years with a stigma that remained on him even after his emigration from the USSR. All his attempts to explain himself to you or to your trusted people came to nothing. In "The Calf" you disparagingly and insultingly called V. Teusch "an anthroposophist who handed over the archive to his proselyte-anthroposophist, the young I. Zilberberg".
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#^https://a.kras.cc/2016/10/blog-post_275.html
#^https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/3025669.html

Also, Solzhenitsyn's last name has the root of the word lzhe (i.e. lie), It's hard to believe such a liar.
#lie about #USSR
#history #lies about #Russia #soviet #russian #jewish #history by #Solzhenitsyn #gulag
#gulag
Christopher Stewart

« Since his body is doomed to die, his task on earth evidently must be of a more spiritual nature. It cannot be unrestrained enjoyment of everyday life. It cannot be the search for the best ways to obtain material goods and then cheerfully get the most out of them. It has to be the fulfillment of a permanent, earnest duty so that one's life journey may become an experience of moral growth, so that one may leave life a better human being than one started it. » — Aleksandr #Solzhenitsyn

#growth
Lieschen Müller's father

Die Staatsduma schlug vor, das Buch „Der Archipel Gulag“ von Alexander Solschenizyn aus dem Schullehrplan zu streichen.


В Госдуме предложили убрать из школьной программы книгу Александра Солженицына "Архипелаг ГУЛАГ". Депутат Вяткин заявил, что многие факты в ней "выдуманы".


#Russland, #Solschenizyn, #Politik, #Россия, #Солженицын, #политика, #lang ru, #Russia, #Solzhenitsyn, #politics
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RT @severreal
В Госдуме предложили убрать из школьной программы книгу Александра Солженицына "Архипелаг ГУЛАГ". Депутат Вяткин заявил, что многие факты в ней "выдуманы". Солженицын написал "Архипелаг ГУЛАГ", основываясь на письмах и воспоминаниях сотен заключённых и своем личном опыте.



Замглавы фракции "Единая Россия" Дмитрий Вяткин заявил ТАСС, что в 2023 году в школьную программу внесут изменения - включат в нее "Молодую гвардию" Александра Фадеева и „Горячий снег” Юрия Бондарева. Вяткин объяснил это тем, что эти произведения "воспитывают чувство патриотизма"
Солженицын был арестован и попал в исправительный лагерь за то, что находясь на фронте, писал друзьям письма, в которых Сталина называл "паханом", исказившим "ленинские нормы". Он пробыл в лагерях почти 8 лет.
Солженицын писал "Архипелаг ГУЛАГ" тайно в течение десяти лет.
В нем он описывал историю репрессий в России, опираясь на письма и воспоминания заключенных и свой собственный опыт. Он получил за эту книгу Нобелевскую премию. Солженицына в 1974 году лишили советского гражданства и выслали из СССР.
Вяткин заявил, что другие произведения, "которые не выдержали испытания временем", например, Архипелаг ГУЛАГ", должны быть исключены из программы. По словам Вяткина, многие факты в "были высосаны из пальца", "придуманы", а Солженицын "вымарал в грязи свою Родину".
В 2009 году "Архипелаг ГУЛАГ" включили в школьную программу в 2009 году по поручению Владимира Путина (тогда он был премьер-министром). Это произошло после встречи Путина с вдовой писателя, Натальей Солженицыной.
Ralph Brooker

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🇺🇦 Sean Prophet ⚛

Discussions of genocide inevitably evolve into discussions about the nature of human evil. I find that usually most people deflect to trying to figure out what unique genetics or environmental influence turns someone into a sociopathic, genocidal monster. And that's always barking up the wrong tree.

Any attempt to explain genocide in terms of a particular culture doesn't explain why genocides have happened all over the world. Different cultures, different time periods, different history, different environments. The killing hasn't stopped since World War II.

And it was going on before that as well. The Armenian genocide took place in 1915.

At least a dozen countries during the past 50 years have gone through spasms of slaughter sometimes running into the millions. The #Holocaust and the Chinese cultural revolution were particularly egregious examples, but it didn't end there. It's never ended.

The common thread that underpins all genocide is power--without checks and balances.

There's a very strong impulse to "other" the perpetrators of genocide. To pretend that they are somehow categorically different from the rest of us.

THAT IS FALSE!!!

There's a quote from Alexander #Solzhenitsyn, paraphrasing: "The line between good and evil cuts through everyone's heart, and who is willing to destroy a piece of their own heart?"

The same evil lives in every one of us. That's the sad fact of human existence. We may think of ourselves as being so much better than a #Hitler or a #PolPot, but we're not.

The vast majority of us don't have the power to do great evil, and we are also bound by the law. So we've never really faced that temptation, to snuff out political enemies or people we just don't like.

Hypothetical thought experiment:

Imagine that all of those rules of civilization are gone, and you have the power over life and death. Wouldn't you be tempted to eliminate the people who you believed were causing the destruction of society and the Earth? Like #capitalist scumbags, fossil fuel profiteers, propagandists, and MAGAts destroying the fabric of our society?

Don't answer that. We know the answer. The temptation would be overwhelming.

Saving billions of lives by eliminating a few evil characters who are wrecking the climate, seems like a no-brainer. The destroyers of the Earth have names and addresses. But it never stops there.

If you have the power to "eliminate evil" by scapegoating and then taking lives, a lot of people would do it. And then the killing inevitably grows in scope.

The genocide-enabling belief is that for whatever reason, *killing is justified.* Once you have that justification, all bets are off, and blood flows like a river.

That's why we need ironclad rule of law and accountability, worldwide. Without it, nothing stops mass murder.

#genocide#ruleoflaw#civilization
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Esma

Exclusive: Ex-Russian spy flees to the NATO country that captured him, delivering another embarrassing blow to Moscow

"“The GRU knew everything about him and his family,” Toots had told me before Zinchenko arrived. He was not selected at random for recruitment; he was targeted because of his family’s pedigree, especially on his father’s side."

Wow, this whole article is amazing for those following Russia's demise: aol.com/news/exclusive-ex-russ

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#Espionage#coldwar#Soviet
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