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Your Putin, TS, has in fact made The Gulag Archipelago required reading for colleges. He is not the admirer of Stalin that you are.
Got myself another copy of “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.” Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago” is supposed to be enlightening too.
One sees similar seeds of the leader cult under Chiang, but people were allowed to refuse to take part. Mao did not allow any standing back. We Socialists would have been utterly obliterated.
Blood splattered on tree trunks. Three young wolves sprawled on the ground. Lifeless. Wolves that were meant to be a symbol of hope for their species were just GUNNED DOWN in Wyoming a few days ago. As members of the only wolf pack in Colorado, they were precious to the state’s repopulation efforts and are protected by the state. But as soon as they set their paws on Wyoming soil, they stood no chance against trophy hunters.
” Being associated with powerful groups allows TN to feel some of the reflected “glory” of the sociopaths he so admires.”
As Reich points out in “Listen, Little Man” and in “The Mass Psychology of Fascism”, which applies to all totalitarianism.
Mao knew how to harness the sexual energy of youth and misguide it. The murderous Red Guards would have been pop and movie star fans, or football hooligans, in the West.
Like my German teacher at school, who, with her fellow Nazi Party members in 1945, swapped armbands for Communist Party ones, and carried on.
He was himself a chain smoker.
Tea houses were closed and the elderly workers who relied on them as a relief from their wretched daily lives driven away. Chess was forbidden too. The Chinese tea house was a very ancient tradition and was the centre of social life. They were not reopened until the 1980s.
Loudspeakers plagued people all day long, and at night, blaring on every street corner.
“True Narcissist states “I would agree with those mumbers. The Ukrainians on the other hand have lost at least 100,000 dead possibly much higher. Ukrainian losses are unsustainable, Russian losses are not. That is why Russia will win and decisively””
And TN must be proud and happy about it.
Yes, like the constitutional church in revolutionary France.
And like that example, Stalin created the Moscow Patriarchate because the former clergy rejected him.
Stalin didn’t “make an alliance” exactly with the Church; he set up the patriarchate with his own appointees, to create a Church loyal to the Soviet state. His motives were patriotism and to assist fervour for the war.
The original patriarchate had collapsed in 1918.
Putin has intimated his admiration for Imperial (imperialism, TS?) Russia and would like the restoration of its control over its former western empire in eastern Europe.
He uses the symbols of the fallen Tsarist empire that even the Bolsheviks had smashed: the two-headed eagle of Byzantium, which linked the Tsars to the Caesars, and the Church with its roots in imperial might, autocracy and xenophobia.Not an imperialist? Give me a break!
