Starting to get that feeling in the first 26 pages. It’s great and have wanted to read it for a while now. But wondering what the take is here on it overall.
The line he literally wrote about the population size of Russia being unsuitable for socialism is like verbatim RW criticism used today and typically repeated when saying that it while it may work in small European counties it won’t here.
Need also to brush up on the Russian Revolution, having only read some of John Reed’s account.
What the soviet penal system was actually like. Solzhenitsyn is but one of a few examples of how the Soviet penal system was too kind to enemies of the Revolution, seeing how antisemite liars like him, fascist traitors, opportunist rats, and descendants of kulaks that all served their sentences and were fully rehabilitated into Soviet society only to turn around and sing their snake fangs into the Republic.
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His grandfather was a Kulak, he deserved to be shot. His father beaten his mother, he deserved to be shot, if not forcibly divorced and sent to far Siberia. Yeltsin would have had a significantly different childhood if every counter-revolutionary adult figure in his life was liquidated as enemies of the Revolution, as they should have, instead of receiving the kindness they did from the Soviet State.
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It actually is since he "reformed" the Soviet penal system because Stalin bad.