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LMS
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This book is harrowing, infuriating, but I’m having trouble putting it down. I’ve been reading little bits while eating lunch, when I wake up, while waiting in line. He’s a sharply insightful and poignantly descriptive author with little pity for himself even when describing moments of great distress.
— Aug 29, 2025 09:47PM
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LMS
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“There is no communism without state planning of production, and there is no planned production without forced labor.”
— Aug 30, 2025 09:04AM
LMS
is on page 126 of 647
“The Westerners do not know how to do anything—neither to open a lock with a nail, scrape off plywood with glass, light a lamp without matches, nor to work on a hungry stomach.”
Soviet superiority.
— Aug 28, 2025 05:35PM
Soviet superiority.
LMS
is on page 34 of 647
“Experience has taught me that no arguments or evidence can dissuade a person who considers him or herself a communist. Only Soviet reality itself can do this.”
— Aug 28, 2025 01:24PM
LMS
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“I did not arrive in Russia via Intourist and did not cross the Polish border in the dark of night; I was a tourist of a third, special sort. I did not need to travel to Russia—it came to me.”
— Aug 27, 2025 01:36PM
