@Background Pony #1AA6
Well. He was not arrested for a letter.
He was arrested for putting together an antisoviet organsation. While being a commander of an artillery battery, in the middle of the war. He was very lucky he wasn’t executed.
@Atlas_66
About his cool stories though, boring or not they are fairy tales which by some are were and still are used as a source. In no small part it is his fault that Soviet prison camps have such stupidly grim reputation and as well the Union itself.

Correction: I fucked up a bit sorry. He was not commanding an artillery battery. He was commanding Artillery reconnaissance unit.

Strangely speaking, most people think collectivization is an act of taking away personal property. However, in a socialist country with genuine people’s democratic dictatorship, the property of the country is dominated by the people, which reflects the will of the people.

@Atlas_66
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet dissident who was imprisoned for writing a letter critical of Stalin. He spent eight years in a prison camp and after he was freed by Kruschev he wrote a book about his experience called The Gulag Archipelago. The book is not ‘boring’ by any means though it wasn’t meant as entertainment. That said even its own author didn’t consider it historical or scientific and rather considered it a collection of camp folklore. It was meant to challenge the government to prove that conditions at the camps and the way they treated dissidents were less harsh than he’d written.

The truth is that of the tens of millions who passed through them over the years the mortality rate varied but was between 3% to as high as 22% per year.

@Arzt-Korkenzieher
What has Soljenitsyn to do with it? then that he wrote some kind of nonsense, then there were no reprisals?) or what do you mean by that?
In general, I don’t know what Soljenitsyn wrote because I didn’t read him, I heard his book was boring from the point of view of writing. Moreover, this is a fiction book, as far as I know, and to perceive Soljenitsyn as a serious “scientific” literature, this is how to perceive Karl Marx as a serious literature) or a textbook on Scientology.
¯_(ツ)_/¯

@Atlas_66
Thanks Soljenitsyn for his bullshit he wrote about the camps. Especially after he got his cancer treated there.

@SMT5015  
So, I have to explain that in general abbreviations sometimes have such a tendency that they start to live their own lives.  
When they say that “someone was sent to the gulag,” well, of course, they mean that they did not send someone to the headquarters of the camps to sweep the floors or sort the papers.  
No, it means that you were sent to the camps because the gulag has become synonymous with camps, all this has flowed into the people, it has become a usus.

@Rain Bow  
This is one and the same lol. GULag is a name of prison administration under NKVD whose headquarters were on Lubyanskaya.

Hey, give your apples and your farm, now it’s state property and everything goes to the collective farm. :3

“we must take your apples and redistribute it equally tovarish”

@Background Pony #1CC5
 
I know that. I mean who told him that there are any mules.

@Arzt-Korkenzieher  

 
slavs were considered “untermensch” during ns germany

@Background Pony #A18A  
What?

Slavs are mules? lol untermares

This picture is a bit of an anachronism - PPS-43 wasn’t developed until well after the purge of the Kulaks.

Some landlords would enjoy their journey to Gulag or Lubyanskaya.

Shouldn’t those 3 be General Sherman and 2 Union soldiers?

Name: Commissar Red Star  
Stand: Purge

@laofuzi  
-“Ha-ha! Characters are dressed in Soviet uniform, and that means i will show you a piece of Chinese story”  
Never the less, there were some silimar events in the Union. Almost similar.

@Background Pony #401F  
By sending most of the harvest to the industrial urban factory areas to feed the workers in spite of the famine, just like in the Great Leap Forward

stand battle imminent

plot twist: they’re coming to thank for her revolutionary method of boosting production

pictures that precede legendary events

@Durabiznik  
/me As a response, looking at you with his most kind face expression.

@TheDrizzle404  

 
Beat me to it

They saw the “Free helicopter rides” sign outside the Acres.