[iskra123]

Another “tell all” that makes no mention of the genocide of 10 million Ukrainians in 1933?

[neverdem]

Another “tell all” that makes no mention of the genocide of 10 million Ukrainians in 1933?

Check the book.

[CondorFlight]

Like Dostoyevsky said, If there is no God, then there is no crime (because there is no good and evil).

If men are created in the image of God, then trying to steamroller their individuality out of existence is to destroy the very meaning of their lives.

Mao tried to put 800 million Chinese into identical suits;
collective farms try to turn men into robots; communism prattles about “the masses” but destroys masses because it doesn’t care about the man.

But there are still plenty of people willing to drink that kool aid.

Fascinating that Dostoyevsky figured out that an atheistic regime must lead to total tyranny and the attempt of the rulers to act as if they were divine and above the law themselves. (If Russia ever reads her own literature, she may come to understand her own history.)

[neverdem]

Not long after Stalin’s confident vision of “a first-rate country with the biggest technically equipped industrial and agricultural production,” the writer Isaac Babel returned to Moscow from a tour of the famine-stricken Ukraine. He confi ded to a friend that he had witnessed things impossible to speak or write about—cannibalism and inhuman destitution.

It depends on the review.