Posted on 05/22/2021 1:03:27 PM PDT by Fzob
TOMSK, Russia – Every year, a small group of locals travels the 550 kilometers northwest from this Siberian city to Nazinsky Island, in the middle of the Ob River, to place a wreath at the foot of a wooden cross. It is a gesture of remembrance for the victims of the horrific events that unfolded there in the summer of 1933.
"Every year in June, we place a wreath at the cross that was placed on the island in 1993," Valeria Shtatolkin told RFE/RL. "But this year, we couldn't go. The water was too high, and the island is almost entirely flooded."
Their dedication to the pilgrimage is part of an effort to remind fellow Russians of an experiment in social engineering and self-sufficiency that went tragically wrong for many of the "settlers" lured by Soviet authorities under Josef Stalin -- whose brutal excesses have frequently been downplayed under Russia's current leadership in favor of a more forgiving historical interpretation of Stalin's three-decade rule.
Eighty-five years ago in May, a small flotilla of lumber barges pulled up to Nazinsky Island and off-loaded about 3,000 "settlers" with orders to construct a "special settlement," as their little corner of Stalin's GULAG – the network of labor camps that spread across the Soviet Union where millions of people were repressed and killed -- was euphemistically called. At least 23 of the prisoners were already dead.
Without tools or shelter or food and surrounded by armed guards who shot anyone who tried to brave the icy river, the prisoners quickly fell victim to starvation, disease, violence, and the brutal elements. And still, additional barges continued to pull up at the island.
Numerous gruesome incidents of cannibalism were reported. So many, in fact, that locals came to call it Cannibal Island or the Island of Death.
By August, at least 4,000 people were dead or missing.
The woke dictator.
That’s what happens when you can’t shoot the bastards through the face when they come to take you to the camps.
Make them pay this time around.
Why Dem’s want our guns.
Coming soon to a gulag near you. And this sort of thing is not an aberration; it’s the norm. Men who wield power over other men invariably become tyrants.
Bingo.
It’s hard to massacre people who can and will shoot back...And who are REALLY good at it...
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, 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 left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
-A. Solzhenitsyn
In the middle of the Ob River in Siberia lies a forgotten island. Never officially named, it’s known after the nearest village: the hamlet of Nazino. But people who live in this desolate region know the island has another, secret name; a name you will never find on Google Maps. Over seventy years ago, dark things happened on this strip of earth surrounded by icy waters, things so horrifying they were kept hidden for decades. Things which resulted in this nameless place becoming known as Cannibal Island.
Very familiar with Solzhenitsyn’s work, and thank you for posting that. It’s timely, informative, and educational for the next generation that these commie bastards try to erase.
Every generation gets its chance to prove it believes what it says it believes…
You have to know when they are coming for you.
You have to resist the wife saying, "Oh, honey - don't make a scene! The police won't really hurt us."
You have to put aside worries about your family being caught in a firefight.
You may have to act alone - and act first, without knowledge that your neighbors and fellow patriots are ready to join you.
Resistance will likely be sporadic, and largely ineffective. The danger to them was social media and Trump rallies, where plans could be made and ideas exchanged. They have squashed those avenues of organization effectively.
They won't have it as easy as the Bolsheviks did, certainly. The more determined side will win.
Marked
Woof!
Well ... yeah ... but ... apart from that ... socialism is pretty cool!!
I practice when I can.
>> The woke dictator
Joseph Stolen
Hitler,as utterly depraved and despicable as he was,was an amateur when compared to Stalin...and Mao.
The first thing that psychopaths like Stalin (and Mao...and Hitler) do before getting down to business is to make sure members of the Great Unwashed are completely unarmed.
4 later
That’s back when they were still in the closet, apparently they thought nobody would know what the posters were. Now they are out of the closet and don’t care.
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