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To: MadIvan
I'm sure you're aware of the story of Pavlik Morozov, the peasant kid who turned in his father and other villagers for trying to keep enough food so as not to starve and was himself killed by his grandfather with an axe. Pavlik became a hero of the CCCP with pioneer and comsomol lagers and what not named after him. A thoroughly perverted system.
43 posted on 05/13/2003 12:12:03 PM PDT by martianagent
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To: martianagent
I like Burroughs' take on the incident...
Fifty years ago, deep in the Ural mountains of Lower Slobbovia, a thirteen-year old prick named Pavlik Morozov denounce his father to the local authorities as a counter-revolutionary kulak because he had a pig hidden in his basement. (A kulak is a subsistence farmer.) That was when Stalin was starving out the kulaks to make way for collective farms, which didn't work. Stalin levied an outrageous produce tax, knowing that the farmers would hide their crops, then sent out patrols to search and seize concealed produce and farm animals. At least three million people starved to death in the winters of 1932 and 1933, and that's a conservative estimate.

Little Pavliki was hacked to stroganoff by the outraged neighbors -- good job and all. Thus perish all talking a******s.

"His name must not die!" sobbed Maxim Gorky, his hearty voice contracted by painful emotion. So Pavliki became a folk hero. Got a street in Moscow named after him, and a statue to commemorate his heroic act. He should have been sculpted with the head of a rat. And the viilage of Gerasimovka is a f*****g shrine, drawing legions of youthful pilgrims to the home of Pavlik Morozov.

"Dirty little Stukach."

That's Ruski for "rat" -- a word designed to be spat out.


45 posted on 05/13/2003 1:32:01 PM PDT by jodorowsky
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