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“Ah, bankers, students, workers, officials, servants, you are the cock-suckers of the useful, the masturbators of necessity. I shall never work. My hands are pure.” — Louis Aragon

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Tag Archives: The Atlantic

Excellence behind bars

Posted on May 11, 2017 by simonings

He ended up on this island in this rather beautiful part of the country, on a very beautiful lake with the Ural Mountains in the background and flowers awaiting him on his doorstep—and far in the distance, men with dogs and some barbed wire.

I talk to Marina Koren of The Atlantic about the Soviet Union’s  system of special prisons.

Posted in Stalin & the Scientists | Tagged interview, Sharashka, Soviet Union, The Atlantic

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