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minus-squareRanzigFettreduziert@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down34·2 days ago Reads The Gulag Archipelago Look inside The victims of Communism are it’s is own people
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up25arrow-down6·2 days agoRather than reading fiction, you could read something like Russian Justice if you wanted to learn how the soviet legal system worked.
minus-square∞🏳️⚧️Edie [it/it/its/its/itself, she/her/her/hers/herself, fae/faer/faer/faers/faerself, love/love/loves/loves/loveself, des/pair, null/void, none/use name]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up17·edit-22 days agoSee also Carl Madsens visit to a Soviet Prison in 1965 (Excerpts from The Good Doctor, also in there a look at the GDR legal system, which for those that have read Russian Justice will see some similarities.) Potentially Justice in Moscow George Fifer, and for the nerds Soviet Administration of Criminal Law Judah Zelitch.
minus-square∞🏳️⚧️Edie [it/it/its/its/itself, she/her/her/hers/herself, fae/faer/faer/faers/faerself, love/love/loves/loves/loveself, des/pair, null/void, none/use name]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up11·edit-22 days agoOh right, also this article Soffiyah Elijah: Lessons from Cuba’s Incarceration Model in which I see similarities to the other books/excerpts I recommended.
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 days agoOh awesome! Cuba’s an area I need more development on, thanks for the rec!
minus-squareRiverRock@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up28arrow-down1·2 days agoEven the author’s wife described the book as “folklore” lmao
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43arrow-down10·2 days ago Reads a book of fiction by a treasonous Nazi sympathizer
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37arrow-down2·2 days agoCalling it nonfiction don’t make it so. https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/06/archives/solzhenitsyns-exwife-says-gulag-is-folklore.html
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up26arrow-down1·2 days agoSocialist states do make mistakes, but linking a work of fiction and pretending the “victims of communism were its own people” is just wrong.
minus-squareRanzigFettreduziert@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down29·2 days agoThe funny part is, I was born and raised in a socialist country and it was shit.
minus-squareSpectrism@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 day agoSome were born in a capitalist country that is shit, in fact even more shit than the GDR. What’s your point?
minus-squareAntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34arrow-down1·edit-22 days agomy parents tell me all the time about the slaves we used to have before the reds forced us to leave or be killed
minus-squareAvid Amoeba@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·edit-22 days agoSome of us are as well and there are differences of opinion on that matter. 😄
minus-squareRanzigFettreduziert@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down16·2 days agoWe’re leftists, that’s exactly our thing.
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down1·2 days ago We’re leftists Somehow I doubt that one.
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down3·edit-22 days agoI don’t normally consider people that use anti-communist pejoratives like “tankie” to be genuine in their leftism. Especially those that try to pretend works of fiction are genuine evidence against socialism.
minus-squareRanzigFettreduziert@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down19·2 days agoLol, you’re confirming the meme.
minus-squareRanzigFettreduziert@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down10·2 days agoThe other Germany.
minus-squareRanzigFettreduziert@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down6·2 days agoOlder than the internet.
minus-squareAlcoholicorn@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·2 days agoYeah, but you’d have to be at least 55 to have lived in east Germany as an independent adult
Rather than reading fiction, you could read something like Russian Justice if you wanted to learn how the soviet legal system worked.
See also Carl Madsens visit to a Soviet Prison in 1965 (Excerpts from The Good Doctor, also in there a look at the GDR legal system, which for those that have read Russian Justice will see some similarities.) Potentially Justice in Moscow George Fifer, and for the nerds Soviet Administration of Criminal Law Judah Zelitch.
Great recs, comrade! 🫡
Oh right, also this article Soffiyah Elijah: Lessons from Cuba’s Incarceration Model in which I see similarities to the other books/excerpts I recommended.
Oh awesome! Cuba’s an area I need more development on, thanks for the rec!
Even the author’s wife described the book as “folklore” lmao
‘Ex-wife’
Try non-fiction
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Calling it nonfiction don’t make it so. https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/06/archives/solzhenitsyns-exwife-says-gulag-is-folklore.html
Try harder
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Socialist states do make mistakes, but linking a work of fiction and pretending the “victims of communism were its own people” is just wrong.
The funny part is, I was born and raised in a socialist country and it was shit.
Cool story
Some were born in a capitalist country that is shit, in fact even more shit than the GDR. What’s your point?
my parents tell me all the time about the slaves we used to have before the reds forced us to leave or be killed
Some of us are as well and there are differences of opinion on that matter. 😄
We’re leftists, that’s exactly our thing.
Somehow I doubt that one.
I don’t normally consider people that use anti-communist pejoratives like “tankie” to be genuine in their leftism. Especially those that try to pretend works of fiction are genuine evidence against socialism.
Lol, you’re confirming the meme.
Which one
The other Germany.
Damn, how old are you?
Older than the internet.
Not a chance
Yeah, but you’d have to be at least 55 to have lived in east Germany as an independent adult
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