'Part I The Prison Industry,'
came the audiobook voice and I knew I was on the right track. I'm revisiting 'The
Gulag Archipelago' because I keep seeing similarities between the Trump presidency
and the Russian revolution. In today's news it's round-up arrests with no due
process of people who have done nothing illegal,
I found an
audiobook version of Gulag free on YouTube, started listening yesterday, and there it was in the first recording; Part I The Prison Industry. Author Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn put the systematic rounding up of innocent persons, one of the first things the trumpsters
are doing, at the beginning of his epic volumes about the horrors of life in
the Soviet Union, because imprisoning fellow countrymen is at the root of dictatorship.
Same thing that happened in
Russia in early 20th century is happening in 21st century USA, only today we
get to watch it on different media.
We are heading in the same direction
today in USA as Russia headed a hundred years ago, with a coup like takeover that
is happening right now of the U.S. government.
Like Stalin and Lenin, a
small group of economic theorists are forcing their beliefs on the rest of us, much
like Communists forced their beliefs on Russia after World War One.
This Libertarian government the U.S. tech bros embrace only exists in theory just like Communism only worked in
theory.
Once a libertarian government with no government starts to fall apart, I think 'The Gulag Archipelago' has warnings critical for all Americans to hear and read, especially if we are just going to let this Trump revolution happen to us.
Part One The Prison Industry
details in pure journalism, truth, pravda, the experience of millions of
Russians in early 20th century who were arrested without warning, and the arrests spread to anyone who
lived nearby. No due process, you were just sent to The Gulags and never heard from
again.
If your family tried to find
you, they got arrested too.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn produced these volumes of stories to WARN US.
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RUSSIAN GULAG MAP from Wikipedia
Aleksandr Isayevich[a] Solzhenitsyn (/ˌsoʊlʒəˈniːtsɪn, ˌsɔːl-/; Russian: Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын, pronounced [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɪˈsaɪvʲɪtɕ səlʐɨˈnʲitsɨn]; 11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) (often Romanized to Alexandr or Alexander) was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and its totalitarianism and helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system. He was allowed to publish only one work in the Soviet Union, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962), in the periodical Novy Mir. After this he had to publish in the West, most notably Cancer Ward (1968), August 1914 (1971), and The Gulag Archipelago (1973). Solzhenitsyn was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". Solzhenitsyn was afraid to go to Stockholm to receive his award for fear that he wouldn't be allowed to reenter. He was eventually expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974, but returned to Russia in 1994 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by Verhoeff, Bert / Anefo [CC BY-SA 3.0 nl (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nl/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons.
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