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Typhoon
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by Typhoon »
Tip of the hat to a friend:
Standpoint | Blood and Lies Behind the Iron Curtain
"By trying to control every aspect of society, the regimes had turned every aspect of society into a potential form of protest."
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
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Typhoon
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by Typhoon »
Skin Job wrote:A venerable cartoon version, chock-full of sarcasm and gallows humor:
http://redprimer.com/
Very good. Thanks for the link.
Gallows humour is one thing that was manufactured in abundance behind the Iron Curtain.
Probably the best analysis that I've read to-date is
The Captive Mind by
Czesław Miłosz.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.
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noddy
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by noddy »
"By trying to control every aspect of society, the regimes had turned every aspect of society into a potential form of protest."
nice,i could replace ~75% of my posts with a cut n paste of that.
ultracrepidarian