Fascist Governments need a public threat (real or imagined) in order to pull of their totalitarian policies. Otherwise no one would tolerate it! Fear is the tool used to make otherwise good people capitulate to mass hysteria and groupthink. For the nazis it was the “Jew problem” – an imagined threat. No one saw a […]
The three volumes of The Gulag Archipelago — one continuous, extended scream of outrage — are, paradoxically, brilliant, bitter, disbelieving and infused with awe: awe at the strength characterising the best among us, in the worst of all situations. In that monumental text, published in 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn conducted “an experiment in literary investigation” — a hybrid […]
