Why Not Socialism?: The Right’s red-baiting has been far too effective

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178. HiPointDem

HiPointDem

Have you at all been reading russian books - both before and after the revolution in 1917... or the many books from the other side of the iron curtain, who was some of the best books ever produced in Europe?... I guess not.. Not everything written in east Europe and in Russia after 1917 was about telling how great the great leaders was - or what a wonderfully man Josef Stalin was... The books about Stalin and the other leaders is more or less forgotten now, but many of the great russian writers - who today is part of the world heritage was written great books, even if their works had to be smuggled to the west for printing - if their contents was not what the leaders wanted...

It was not easy to navigate true the different leaders - what was legal in 1950, was not legal ten years later on.. When new leaders was coming to power, it tend to have consequences for what was legal and not.. Some ended up in a prison cell because they do not "get the message".. Other times, writers who had been prosecuted and put in prison under Stalin, was rehabilitated and given both their freedom and a decent life for as long as they was living... And many continued to write books, who for the most part is part of the classical russian heritage today... Russians have always been glad in writing and reading books, and they have great pleasure of reading books over there...

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