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Posted on 04/08/2013 6:31:24 PM PDT by annalex
It requires crushing the human spirit to be free, independent, own the wealth you create, and own your own body. The communists found they had to constantly "educate" instinctive human yearnings out of people to create "the new man." It didn't work and will never work. I'm astonished that this is not self-evident to mankind and even more astonished where we find our country today.
One great read is Solonevitch, unfortunately almost unknown in English. What is often missed, and Solonevitch captures it, is that the system was comprehensive, while the labor camps, the starvation, the fire squads, the endless wars, and the rule of terror were parts of a complete whole, design to remake a once European nation into a mob of slaves. For example, he recalls how peasants begged the Gulag prisoners for food. The conditions in some crack industrialization site were probably worse than in prisons, — and these were people who volunteered for that work.
And here we are in America 21st century, obsessed with two phenomena which ceased existing 67 years ago: Holocaust and (Dr. Mengele’s) racism (because ethnic animosity is not “racism”, but of course the term is and has always been intended to imply closeness of the accused to Mengele’s ideas), and I figure it has been planned and being executed to draw attention from the crimes of Communism which are still occurring daily, while some of the retired Communist criminals are living comfortably in places like Sweden.
Nazism was another criminal enterprise with its own victims, but I agree, the Left uses this fact to cover for their own pet projects.
Interesting in regard to the local populaces. That would correspond with some of the things Dolgun notes in the latter parts of his book.
I will look for Solonevitch.
I saw a facsimile of the translated pages somewhere, but now I cannot find them.
The translation has other flaws. For one thing, the title should be "Russia in Concentration Camp" or something similar; back in 1938 there was no set term for this kind of thing in English, but that is what the book's title in Russian is, "Россия в концлагере".
I am thinking of funding it through Kickstarter; maybe one day I will. It is a large book, I would not be able to translate it myself, but I could edit the raw translations.
Thanks annalex. From 1977.
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