Posted on 02/21/2023 6:39:43 PM PST by ValleyofHope
In Russian language English subtitles
Put it on my watch list, thanks.
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Absolutely nothing here that reflects Solzhenitzen’s novel. This appears to be a great example of WEU=NATO gaslighting. Rea the novel and see how this is disingenuous crap,
Thank you. I actually have the book, but have not read it yet.
784 pages-don’t think so. The Gulag Arch... was a lot of dry reading.
So was Anne Applebaum’s book on the same subject.
Solzhenitsyn wrote it tho.
You’ve watched it?
I am not sure what you are implying. Could you elaborate?
It is an excellent series, detailing the conditions of the scientific class kept in captivity to produce results for the state.
It is not part of The Gulag Archipelago book, but merely a closer look at the system.
I read it some years ago.
As I recall it followed a x-ray tech who gets diagnosed with cancer along with various citizens and their struggles with the Soviet system oh health care.
The one character reads Pravda everyday between the lines to see who is being purged that week.
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That may have been cancer ward.
That may have been cancer ward.
No, I think that is another of his books, ‘Cancer Ward’.
The novel is a great deal different than the plodding GA. Fascinating picture of late Stalinist Russia ca 1948-50
The plot you describe is a manipulation of the novel which is set in a sharaska but has none of the hokey intel plot. In the Stalinist regime where old copies of Time Magazine are tightly controlled ts level documents and the pervasive deliberately generated security paranoia environment the intel story line is ridiculous. As late as 1959 the leading Soviet research organizations admitted that the US had almost no knowledge of the inner workings of the Soviet regime. The novel describes this sealed world phenomenon very well. The Soviet Union for much of its existence was the most tightly controlled regime in history. People who were life time Soviet citizens such as Ayn Rand’s younger sister were absolutely incapable of relating or functioning in American society. Her sister hated the US, freedom was not good but a menace, she hated being required to make decisions, loathed the wealth, innumerable automobiles and people just doing as they pleased.
I have been self studying the russian language for 2 years now. This series had helped me somewhat in the conversational cues and directional dialogue.
I think it has a bit too much gratuitous content, and it over dramatizes some events, but over all, it gives a very good glimpse into pre-modern russian abilities and tactics.
I do not intend to promote either a pro russian or pro ukrainian point of view. I simply wanted to post a very engrossing miniseries.
But did you watch the series? Just asking.
And I have ordered the book
Bookmarked
No. I try to never watch television at all.
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