going to tell you a story from Soviet
Union that soldier missing total
introduces it with the Pope from the
Russian poet because the Soviet
sympathizer cohesion construction grit
and repression bring the neck of this
game run riot nice Pope socialism wonder
who's the game that's the question as I
said he is 266 million people died so
begin in between this one seventeen to
nineteen fifty-nine closure also have to
make substantially larger number
character problems of China pull
ingredients stats on that now this is a
debatable to debit as social mix 1.7
slope this is from the green I've ever
gotten open as he said as soon as the
official statistics are released you
know what revise his estimates this
includes for example several millions
billion
Kevin's pushed into the tundra forestry
the patient years twenty six million
training's six meter gagging the famine
tonight including sir preview to story
okay well this is the situation so in
the distance to tell you about his life
story feel like our telling was a
three-volume
book the second volume of which you will
read it's his story about through life
who let user system of forced labor
camps set up in the Soviet Union soon
after let him die but yes some of the
most sexy 45 and upon which the Saudis
poems really ran for much of it too much
of what constitutes Mike now
Solzhenitsyn started his travels through
the gulag originally the Russians
frontline soldier the neat story in
sentence he got thrown into the German
prisoner of war camp and when he was
repatriated to the Soviet Union
Stalin threw me there in a concentration
camp and the reason was as he did with
all but returned Russian prisoners of
war who were treated by the we terribly
the German prison
more camps because Stillman refused to
sign the commune convention on the
treatment apprentice so not only were
they imprisoned that were camps it was
miserable enough that they were starved
to the degree that the other allied
prisoners used to give them food they
didn't have much food themselves so he
was the frontline soldiers then he
doctored the German prisoner of war camp
and then when he finally returned to
Russia
Helen through the concentration camp and
the reason for that was that the Russian
who were in German prisoners of war camp
had been contaminated by their exposure
to Western ideas that was his rationale
so anyway then he spent a decade and a
half of their boats in concentration
camps
what would he go no need to build a
stomach cancer so that's a brief summary
some of the highlights of his life okay
and then see he's being transported from
one camp to another you know rail recon
is being roughly outfitted for transport
in be sitting with friend if he calls
can understand immediately story my
friend had an entire line of the middle
shelf of the Sullivan compartment that's
was categorized entity to be physical
human transport and I've set ourselves
up constantly tucked our soul carrying
in her pocket so we don't eat water and
can go to sleep but in some station or
other they showed into our compartment a
Marxist phone so we can tell this from
his guilty and spectacles he doesn't
hide it as bad so he's been arrested he
could develop Amandine rusted metal um
yes
even hypothetically is a former
professor of the Communist Academy we
hang head down in the square cut up from
his very first words you see that he was
impenetrable
we've been serving time for a very long
time and have a long time left served
and we value a merry joke we find
there's ample space left in the
compartment so we exchange places with
someone and Crowley in hello hello you
know too crowded no it's alright
and being in the junk a long time
blowing it up
are you past the halfway mark just look
over there poverty-stricken our villages
are straw ash prototypes
that's an inheritance inheritance from
the Czarist regime but we've already had
30 Soviet years doesn't insignificant
period this work it's terrible that the
collective farmers have started but if
you looking older others just ask any
collective farm in their compartment
everyone in jail is embittered in
prejudice but I've seen collective farms
myself that means we were
uncharacteristic the goji have never
been anything that was simpler just ask
the old folks twenties Azhar they were
well fed well clothed and they used to
have many holidays I'm going to ask it's
a subjective trait opinion memories to
praise everything pop the cow who died
is the one that you twice the bill
sometimes even side to progress and our
people don't like holidays they like to
work why is there a shortage of bread in
many cities when rain before the war for
example not true
before the war everything in fact we
were that listen at that time the oldest
cities on the Volga
they were killed thousands of people a
local failure to flush more likely your
memory is failing you but there's a
shortage now always tales we have from
78 billion bushels of grain the grain is
running not so we've been very
successful in developing new species
agree and so forth is being perturbing
it's in the language which requires no
effort of the word and arguing with him
is like walking through the desert it's
about people like that that they say can
they divide the motorbike Smithson came
home on Shawn
when they write in or Larry's
Paris tragically during the period was
thus telescope it should be corrected to
read parish comically to say to grow
feel differently but has never learned
what a dry and significant little grin
he really was we would have respectfully
medically music we would have become a
People's Commissar for these inventions
represent rural Russia abroad target it
was useless so it's much more
interesting time again it's not a chest
but the game with Conrad's really is
that's game very simple game high up to
a couple of times so here's some of
these old pet words and phrases like
that for you growing accustomed friends
all around here enemies it become weary
of sterling dozen bikes a challenge
stories because all them will be twisted
controller exact interface but if he
takes you for one of his own it will
quite intimately disposed you way of
seeing a distinction people are passing
by talking plastic life goes on
the party is providing leadership are
being moved from Joseph Joe yet you and
I are languishing here in prison there
are only a handful of us we must write
and write petitions begging a review of
our cases being pardoned or he will tell
you something interesting in the
Communist Academy they decided to devour
it will program he decided he wasn't
about genuine got one of our own so now
they could imagine there are no errors
in everything his biography was clean
and all of a sudden going through the
archives was fine they ran across an old
brochure written by this program in
which vladimir Ilyich Lenin himself had
held in his hand in the margin of which
he had written in his own hand write the
notation because it an economist is
well now you understand but anything
smiled confidentially
but after that it's no trouble at all
big short work of that month had
concocted the expelled from the Academy
and deprived of Islamic rank
the Communist offensive exchange he
doesn't think it Massacre because he has
an ideological assistance in terms of
your death he won't admit any evidence
whatsoever it gets to suggest some of
these presuppositions are wrong for
every a bit of evidence that exists
there is a counter-argument that
justifies it or excuses it or makes it
disappear in some way that's the first
part the second part of the story is
that being like this is also
extraordinary
clannish innocence he tells a brief
story about being in the Communist
Academy where everyone shared the
biology and finding the outsider so that
essentially destroyed there are specific
reasons why doesn't matter that
narrative restarting the first attitude
needs an adsorbent to the second
attitude to say optional authoritarian
ideology which is basically the
presumption of them disappearing
ideologue do you think that what you
think is the right thing thing there's
anything else that needs to be bought
it's you that has the answer that you
like more things you you might think
that it's yours either for the ideology
in and of itself but the point is you're
the one that's in possession of the
absolute truth and every fact that might
exist to dispute that is eliminated
problem in fact sometimes they come to
body form to say we came to think of
idea that this emotive abstraction is
truly matters ideas are representations
of human patterns of action sometimes
the enemy idea is actually the enemy and
there's very little difference from the
practical perspective between
repressing facts that are uncomfortable
and depressing people whose viewpoints
or even style and existence are equal
texture
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