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Darkness at Noon Former Soviet Party superstar languishes in prison while awaiting execution by the Soviets. Not recommended. These people are just the worst. The book is largely an assertion along the lines of “us old Bolsheviks were making good progress toward trying real communism and then these Stalinist thugs came and ruined it.” Which is, of course, stupid on its face. Soviet thinking had all the worst vices of religious thinking and none of its virtues. It’s so exhausting to listen to the performative rhetoric competition. “How far can I distort my worldview? Did you distort your worldview enough to escape the KGB death squads?” There’s pretty much nothing else to this book. Warning: I’m going to block anyone who shows up in the replies defending any flavor of Marxism, Bolshevism, Stalinism, etc.
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Silly me. I spent last 30 years believing it's one of the best books about the horrors of stalinism you can read. Please do 1984 next.
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“Why would these cruel children beat so mercilessly on their sweet and innocent grandparents” contains a premise that might be worth rejecting even if the children are actually cruel
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"A wave slowly lifted him up. It came from afar and travelled sedately on, a shrug of eternity." Happy ending for Rubashev.
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