tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post4483431272709045875..comments2024-03-23T04:01:39.348-04:00Comments on Understanding Society: Evil consequences of totalitarian ideologiesDan Littlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15953897221283103880noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-58939303158682764732022-10-01T15:08:35.573-04:002022-10-01T15:08:35.573-04:00Excellent blog excellent article-review. i would o...Excellent blog excellent article-review. i would only made some reference to Varlaam Salanov and his exceptional book, Nights in Kolyma. After the fall of the communism The party called Salamov and asked him to make a joint publication with Solzhenitsyn in which they asked him to somehow give an excuse to the Stalin's regime in the sense that by being to harsh to Russians they thought it would be for their own good in the long run. Salamov answered back that if we had been just detained in prison he would have understand their your argumenta But the tortures he suffered during those 30 years in the concentrations camps helped him realize that when you push a human being to live through his instincts you are depriving him of the possibility to become a better person because his focus is centered in survival. So they printed Solzhenitsyn's "One day of Ivan Denisovitsch" and banned the circulation of Salamov's book for some years. Eventually it was published in USA in 1966. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02912802569232118318noreply@blogger.com