#Gulag

Jan Jekielek

JanJekielek

I've been listening to a reading of @AI_Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago. This book is so powerful, so timeless, so important, with some much intellectual fodder for today.Many have heard, "The

David Fedman

dfedman

1/ Mass incarceration and gerrymandering are both dire threats to America's democracy, but only today did I realize how intertwined they are. I honestly had no idea that the US

🌾 Ⓐ Endymion ☭ Ⓥ 🏴🚩⚙️

Endymion_36

Here's some stuff about the Soviet Union.A Thread. 1) Some books about the USSR available for free : -Worker's participation in the Soviet Union (Mick Costello, 1977) : https://archive.org/stream/WorkersParticipationInTheSovietUnio

Ron Coleman

RonColeman

In Israel years ago I first heard the term "frayer" for "loser, sucker." Just came upon its origin, rereading The Gulag Archipelago: I first read "Gulag" in the spring of

James

historyboy77

(1) Here are some points about the Gulag system.1) There were at least 476 camp systems, each containing hundreds or thousands of camps and sub-camps spread over the entirety of

This Nigga Spittin

MarxIsMyNigga

Re-education is good. What you see here on Twitter isn’t an opposition to re-education, but pushback against what the liberals have put in people’s brain about what re-education is. There’s

Pierre-Louis Vézina

pl_vezina

Just uploaded a new version of our paper with @GerhardToews, #Enemies of the people. Time for another thread. Link to pdf here: https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=10vutaJkChbuymdV4tbGBBGdpGUxVS802 Old thread from two years a

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

Funny story about this "there you go again" Reagan meme. He said that cutesy phrase in the process of telling a transparent lie about his record. Jimmy Carter pointed out

Alex Selby-Boothroyd

AlexSelbyB

The backstory about what ends up on the cover of @TheEconomist each week is fascinating (h/t @lmirani) Interesting detail about "Wichita Lineman", a song I never tire of Three (3)

Agnes Callamard

AgnesCallamard

#YuriDmitriev uncovered and protected mass graves, wrote about the #Gulag, one of the darkest moments of #Russia history, and arguably of the world. For that, he has spent the last

ن Miss Ellie Mae

MissEllie_Mae

1)In “The Gulag Archipelago,” Solzhenitsyn very sternly admonishes the Russian people for silently complying with every demand and edict the government threw at them. “I could have spoken up at

Ari Paul ⛓️

AriDavidPaul

For all its messiness, the US has in many ways been a “beacon of hope” to the world since its founding. Born from democratic self-determination, and with the statue of

Daniel Finkelstein

Dannythefink

Perhaps it is a banal point but the internet can be amazing. Here’s a small story. (Short thread) My father was born in Lwow, a Polish Jew, part of a

(((Road Bear Life)))

bearshrugged

1/ Thanksgiving was wonderful, but I cannot help with watching what is going on with shut downs, arrests, and everyone from blue checks to every day people celebrating arrests and

Axe Man

_zan_

I’m part of a Facebook group called the “home gym community” and it’s full of right wing chuds who have been sharing all of their gym setups displaying their Thin

🚩ProletariatRising🚩

ProletariatRis1

Just thinking about how the Soviet gulag system allowed prisoners to go home for 2 weeks a year on vacation if they behaved. What fucking prison system in history (other

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