In the Soviet Union, desk drawers became sarcophagi; entombed within them were the creative endeavours of the most talented and perceptive Soviet citizens. Yet it is best not to idealise such hiding spaces as reserves of dormant illumination; indeed, there may have been no limit to the depths of darkness possible within them.

Consider the case of Danzig Baldaev. Born in 1925 in Ulan-Ude, in east-central Russia, Baldaev was the son of an ethnographer who was arrested as an "enemy of the people". He grew up in an orphanage for the children of "enemies" and following his service in the second world war was "forced", as he described it, by the NKVD (a forerunner of the KGB) to work as a warder at Kresty prison in Leningrad, now St Petersburg. His employment in the Soviet penal system took him all over the USSR, but in private, he poured the psychological detritus of his profession into a terrifying work of sadistic pornography, which he dedicated, in 1988, to Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Drawings from the Gulag by Danzig Baldaev – a review


This video should allow the Bernie Bros to wax nostalgic

Most extraordinarily equal post Komrad Salazarinski,

I forwarded the video to several useful idiots loyal Party adherents I know. All share the view expressed by the Bernie Boys that the Gulags were benign and actually beneficial to those sent there. Every single useful idiot Party Loyalist responded that Bernie and his followers would get it right THIS TIME. Oh, the GWONT is going to be great! I can hardly wait!

Wetting myself in the Current Truth ™,

Red Salmon

PS. I hope spawning season happens before the GWONT. Where is that stream....

Red Salmon wrote:Most extraordinarily equal post Komrad Salazarinski,

I forwarded the video to several useful idiots loyal Party adherents I know. All share the view expressed by the Bernie Boys that the Gulags were benign and actually beneficial to those sent there. Every single useful idiot Party Loyalist responded that Bernie and his followers would get it right THIS TIME. Oh, the GWONT is going to be great! I can hardly wait!

Wetting myself in the Current Truth ™,

Red Salmon

PS. I hope spawning season happens before the GWONT. Where is that stream....

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Don't expect this to change their minds. They have excuses for everything relating to communism. Including the ever-present phrase that you yourself noted, "we'll get it right THIS TIME!"

Look, if the biggest country in the world, with some of the biggest farmable landmasses and metal ore deposits in the world, could not afford to pay for communism or feed its' people, how do you think America will do? I'd like to see the BernieBros answer that.

And most of them assume that they'll be the kommissars, because they have all the "right ideas". What they don't realize is that they wouldn't be the leaders in those government buildings, they'd be the ones with the hoes, and not the kind they're used to either.

Most equal Komrad Stierlitz,

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The choir will now sing. I know my Leftist acquaintances and relatives are impervious to reason and evidence. I started playing a game with them (without their knowledge) when I was a child. I would point out the absurdity of whichever ridiculous statement they were repeating. They would realize that I was not going to buy that particular bit of nonsense and abruptly start spouting a different slogan. Then I would repeat the process. My game was to see how many times I could get them to abandon their position without defending it and switch to a new subject. Thanksgivings were especially fun for me as I could play against large groups. I still play this game today. I don't believe any of my Bolshevik relatives have ever figured out that I've been making sport of them all these years. Marbles in the knife drawer.

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Thought is BAD! All we need are feelings and slogans!

Propelling the Current Truth ™,

Red Salmon

How do you say “enemy of the people” in today's world?

Racist. Fascist.

But give it time.

Red Salmon wrote:Most equal Komrad Stierlitz,

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The choir will now sing. I know my Leftist acquaintances and relatives are impervious to reason and evidence. I started playing a game with them (without their knowledge) when I was a child. I would point out the absurdity of whichever ridiculous statement they were repeating. They would realize that I was not going to buy that particular bit of nonsense and abruptly start spouting a different slogan. Then I would repeat the process. My game was to see how many times I could get them to abandon their position without defending it and switch to a new subject. Thanksgivings were especially fun for me as I could play against large groups. I still play this game today. I don't believe any of my Bolshevik relatives have ever figured out that I've been making sport of them all these years. Marbles in the knife drawer.

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Thought is BAD! All we need are feelings and slogans!

Propelling the Current Truth ™,

Red Salmon

Most equally Red Salmon, you make Thanksgiving sound fun again. 'pelipsky wants to empty the marbles from the knife drawer out on the floor and then just sit back and watch the mayhem unfold.
Those crazy Pilgrims eschewed socialism and then enjoyed a really great social get-to-gether which set such a high standard of productivity and good eats that must be equalized into irrelevance.

Propellerheads up the Current Truth and hoping you spawn freely in stream of Current Truth before GWONT.
'pelipsky

For some reason, people denying, that Bernie Sanders is a Communist, never argue with those, who don't consider it a bad thing. Both groups argue with the flabbergasted bourgeois instead...

Most equal Komrad Jackalopelipsky,

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Since childhood I have considered Thanksgiving a triumph of sorts if most of my relatives aren't speaking to me for much of the following year. As one Uncle (who is not to be counted among the Marbles) once pointed out, I have a finely developed killer instinct. I do not hesitate. Good or bad, it just is. He would know. He retired from the USMC.

As far as spawning in the stream of Current Truth ™ goes I will defer to the wisdom of W. C. Fields. Specifically the reason he did not drink water.

And The Propellerheads are a terrific band. Take California.

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I denounce myself for hijacking this thread. My sincerest apologies Komrad Salazarinski.

Charging upstream in the Current Truth ™,

Red Salmon