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What's the best rendition of this book?

>> No.10263100

The Gulag Archipelago - waste of time and piece of anti soviet propaganda shit.
In this book only 30% truth

>> No.10263102

>>10262568
I'll spare you the reading
>an authoritarian regime purges dissidents to maintain control
>this is bad because it hurts the author's feelings
>COMMUNISM BTFO YOU BADDIES
there you go

>> No.10263186

>>10263102
This is the best rendition

>> No.10263206

>>10262568
Just read a history book

>> No.10263218

Here come the shills

>> No.10263220

>>10262568
Also, try 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'. Solzhenitsyn writes a narrative that follows a single day in a Soviet gulag from the perspective of one prisoner - Ivan Denisovich. I read it a few years back and have found my old copy ready to re-read last week. Maximum emotional engagement can be achieved by fasting from food while reading the book in the daylight hours and using candles at night (honestly, it made the experience of reading this short book so memorable, helped to put my mundane 'suffering' into perspective).

>> No.10263974

>>10263100
>>10263102

gee, sorry that Solzhenitsyn spoils your fantasies of a communist utopia

>> No.10263993

>>10263974
>sorry

No you're not. Further proof the right can't be trusted.

>> No.10264008

Solzhenitsyn approved an abridged version that cut out a lot of topical filler and shrank it down to a single volume. You could always start there.

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>>10263993
you actually don't deserve to breath if you've read Solzhenitsyn and still feel compelled to defend Communism

>> No.10264021

>>10264010
I've no idea what argument you're having

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>>10264021

>> No.10264034

>>10264029
I hope you're ok.

>> No.10264037

>>10263993
>the right can't be trusted because they used sarcasm and i need every inch i can get when we're talking about the commie ruiner Solzhenitsyn

>> No.10264047

>>10264034
>>10264037

you know, I'm glad to see the reemergence of Solzhenitsyn through JBP. The Gulag Archipelago really is getting popular again. I saw it on the shelves at B&N for the first time the other day. This is triggering the leftists pseuds on this board and there's nothing they can do about it.

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>>10264037
>thinking a sarcastic post about sarcasm wasn't sarcastic

jee wizz

>> No.10264051

>>10262568
Guantanamo Bay

>>10264010
The Soviet Union was not communist.

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>>10264051
>The Soviet Union was not communist.


literally not an argument

>> No.10264079

>>10264066
They called themselves socialist, though that is even a stretch. Lenin admitted as much. He died doing state authoritarian capitalism.

Does this offend your cappy ears/eyes? You live in capitalist statism. Think it superior if you like. I'm no tankie.

>> No.10264095

>>10264079
if you want to think that so as to rehabilitate communism as an acceptable ideology you're free to do so, but that doesn't make it true.

>> No.10264333

>>10264051
>but it wasn't REAL communism
Fuck off

>> No.10264359

>>10264079
they did EXACTLY what marx prescribed in the manifesto

>"it's not real communism"
>it actually was real communism

>> No.10264411

>>10264359
Hence why it is called Marxist-Leninism. It failed. Bakunin said it would and he was right.

The ideal of communism existed before Marx, you know?

Can we learn this simple twist of sociopolitical history yet?

>> No.10264430

> there's a utopia floating right in front of us! come comrades
> we just all have to jump off this cliff to reach it... you first
> of course we'll make the jump, even though no one else has
> well, of course some people are going to die jumping off the cliff, eggs and ommelettes, we're on the path towards utopia, it's worth it
> wtf why doesn't anyone want to jump anymore, utopia is literally right there, why won't you listen to me
> I bet the fucking capitalists did this

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>>10264430
Abandoning capitalism for a world of sharing and caring would be the greatest event in human history.
If the worms and parasites would allow us in time.

>> No.10264471

>>10264457
if wishes were horses and beggars could ride

>> No.10264748

>>10264051
>The Soviet Union was not communist.
"We gotta try it one more time!"

>> No.10264782

>>10264748
If you only had a brain enough to know what they were doing was state authoritarian capitalism.
Chomsky, laddy. Read. Or watch some youtubes. Go learn.

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>>10264457
>implying what you imagine as 'a world of sharing and caring' isn't dysfunctional and a road to misery
>wtf why would anyone disagree with me??? do u hate sharing or sometihng?? why do you want people to starve?

>> No.10265181

>>10264782
Nigga shut the fuck up

>> No.10265207

>>10264872
>>10265181
Back to your hug-boxes.

>> No.10266790

>>10264782
>t. brainlet

>> No.10266967

Praise the Lord that Solzhenitsyn survived the Soviet gulags so that he could one day have the opportunity to chastise the America people for not killing more yellow people.

>However, the most cruel mistake occurred with the failure to understand the Vietnam war. Some people sincerely wanted all wars to stop just as soon as possible; others believed that there should be room for national, or communist, self-determination in Vietnam, or in Cambodia, as we see today with particular clarity. But members of the U.S. anti-war movement wound up being involved in the betrayal of Far Eastern nations, in a genocide and in the suffering today imposed on 30 million people there. Do those convinced pacifists hear the moans coming from there? Do they understand their responsibility today? Or do they prefer not to hear?

>The American Intelligentsia lost its nerve and as a consequence thereof danger has come much closer to the United States. But there is no awareness of this. Your shortsighted politicians who signed the hasty Vietnam capitulation seemingly gave America a carefree breathing pause; however, a hundredfold Vietnam now looms over you. That small Vietnam had been a warning and an occasion to mobilize the nation's courage. But if a full-fledged America suffered a real defeat from a small communist half-country, how can the West hope to stand firm in the future?

>> No.10266977

>>10264051
They never achieved communism but they were communists. That's the cruel joke of socialism. It never ends.

>> No.10266978

>>10264079
>tankie
Fuck off Chapo faggot.

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10266999

>Dude, Communism totally works, just look at Yugoslavia

It's funny when Commies say it only works when its leader isn't succesful in firmly establishing Communism and its inevitable totalitarianism properly, and gets stuck somewhere inbetween, slowly having to roll back their policies throughout the years not to devour itself.

>> No.10267003

this is the book board, not the youtube bideo board