“In the end, the gap between reality and ideology meant that the communist parties wound up spouting meaningless slogans they themselves knew made no sense. As the philosopher Roger Scruton argues, Marxism became so cocooned in what George Orwell once called “Newspeak” that it could not be refuted: “Facts no longer made contact with the theory, which had risen above the facts on clouds of nonsense, rather like a theological system. The point was not to believe the theory, but to repeat it ritualistically and in such a way that both belief and doubt became irrelevant… In this way, the concept of truth disappeared from the intellectual landscape, and was replaced by that of power.”
Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956, pp 465-466
I have this book in hardcopy in my library. it's chilling once you understand the implications - and how it is being used against us today.
It is chilling. And it’s why I have always appreciated your posts. They truly are “killers without conscience”.
And of course I meant mass, not ass. Oops
I just finished watching a Russian movie called “Dear Comrades”, it was about a massacre in a Russian town called Novocherkassk in the 1960s, after the workers there went on strike.
It’s one of those things about the Soviet Union that never got out, but it clearly showed that the people in the Soviet Union weren’t as subservient as most think.