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The Gulag Archipelago, Vol. 1: An Experiment in Literary Investigation https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0061253715/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_2ktOBbAE97JP1

Go read that. Then tell us all how the Soviet Union doesn't compare to the third reich.

1. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
   
   

• 2. 1984 – George Orwell
     
• 3. Road To Wigan Pier – George Orwell
     
• 4. Crime And Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
     
• 5. Demons – Fyodor Dostoevsky
     
• 6. Beyond Good And Evil – Friedrich Nietzsche
     
• 7. Ordinary Men – Christopher Browning
     
• 8. The Painted Bird – Jerzy Kosinski
     
• 9. The Rape of Nanking – Iris Chang
     
• 10. Gulag Archipelago (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, & Vol. 3) – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
      
• 11. Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
      
• 12. Modern Man in Search of A Soul – Carl Jung
      
• 13. Maps Of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief – Jordan B. Peterson
      
• 14. A History of Religious Ideas (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3) – Mircea Eliade
      
• 15. Affective Neuroscience – Jaak Panksepp
  
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Yes. A brilliant work!


Gulag Archipelago (Volume one , Volume two , & Volume three ) – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

These books are quite long. There is an abridged version by the same translators in the links above. The abridged version is all volumes in one book. In my opinion, his experience and the effect he had upon this world is too great to only read the abridged version.

I'm in the middle of https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061253715/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and it's meaty but thorough

https://www.amazon.ca/Gulag-Archipelago-Vol-Experiment-Investigation/dp/0061253715/

We have way better technology now than they did in the Soviet Union. Read that book and then imagine what they could do when every single phone has a far field microphone, satellites can see every hair on everyones head everywhere, and every transaction you make is recorded and analyzed with AI.

The argument I used to hear growing up about why our loss of privacy wasn't such a big deal was that "what do you have to hide?" Well, when your data is all out in the open you can program behaviour. That's what was such a big deal.

One day people will see.

The works of Solzhenitsyn are a good place to start, for those unfamiliar with just how far down the rabbit hole to Hell statism can take us. The Gulag Archipelago is actually three volumes but the first one will be enough to get the point across.

Another book I thought was worthwhile was Ma Bo's Blood Red Sunset: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution.

There are plenty of others but those are the ones that impacted me the most as a kid. (Edit: The East German Stasi would be worth looking into if you're not already familiar with it. The Lives of Others is awesome; I understand it was based on some real characters and events.)

Union Carbide didn't actually think they were carrying the banner of human progress when they gassed Bhopal. Dow Chemical didn't manufacture Agent Orange in the service of the CEO's personality cult. Phillip Morris and General Motors? Hell, they just want your money. If you're stupid enough to set some chemical-soaked leaves on fire and deliberately inhale the smoke, or drive yourself into a tree at 100 MPH, then yeah, I guess they're your worst nightmares.

But a statist regime wants everything you have, everything you are, everything you will ever be. You have a tough job ahead if you want to convince me that the evils of berserk, out-of-control governments are in the same league as the worst crimes perpetrated by for-profit corporations. Not saying it can't happen, just saying you have some hard work ahead of you.

I bought Volume I, this edition.

I don't need an echo-chamber to be anti-government, just a basic understanding of history. Have you ever read about the 20th century? 100 million people were murdered by their own leftist-totalitarian governments - you know that right?

There are a lot of stupid people hellbent on making the same mistakes in current year.

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Here you go, have a read and then try to justify authoritarian rule.

Gulag Archepelago: required reading for any USSR/Soviet/Gulag fanatic.

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