One More Time
From my post:
“If you leave a German alive, the German will hang a Russian and rape a Russian woman.--Krasnaya Zvezda, Ilya Ehrenberg
“All of us knew very well that if the girls were German they could be raped and then shot. This was almost a combat distinction.”
--Gulag Archipelago, Vol. 1, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Where does it mention rape? Clue: It doesn't.
"All of us" understand the analogy... it's a reverse Golden Rule scenario: do unto others before they do unto you... but you don't even see the "mention" of rape. Interesting... Fact is that most of his propaganda pamphlets have gone missing, and yet we can still (most of us) SEE the type of psychology he used.
From my post:
"Nemmersdorf, where females from 8 to 80 were gang-raped to death and nailed--CRUCIFIED--to barn doors. (Who cares about Matthew 23, you ask? Obviously Ehrenburg's listeners did... why else did they crucify them?"
Oh, dear. Are you laboring under the misconception that the vast majority of Red Army troops committing rape weren't Christians?
And yet, Solzhenitsyn says these things:
"And not only socialists were now politicals. The politicals were splashed in tubfuls into the fifteen-million-criminal ocean, and they were invisible and inaudible to us. They were mute. They were muter than all the rest. Their image was the fish. The fish, symbol of the early Christians. And the Christians were their principal contingent... There was a multitude of Christians: prisoner transports and graveyards, prisoner transports and graveyards. Who will count those millions?"
--page 310, Gulag Archipelago, Vol. 2, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"The truth was that not all our people, even though socialist, had yet risen to that steadfast cruel level necessary for a worthy camp guard! The VOKhR staff was uneven, and ceased to be the wall of horror it was intended to be. It softened up especially in the years of the Soviet-German war; the very best trained (in "good viciousness") of the young fellows had to be surrendered to the front, and the sickly reservists were dragged into VOKhR..."
--page 560, Gulag Archipelago, Vol. 2, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Which means that your "vast majority" contained those vicious VOKhR camp guards... rape and murder is what they did in GULag, too... it's THEIR M.O.!
From my post:
"In Ehrenburg's memoirs you will find no trace of such trivial incidents. Anyway, he might not have known that the man arguing with him had been arrested. He merely offered a fairly standard Party-line reply at that particular moment and then forgot about it. Ehrenburg writes that he himself "survived by lottery." Well, that little lottery had marked numbers. If they were rounding up your friends, you had to stop phoning them in time. If the wagon shaft turned, it was necessary to turn too. Ehrenburg heated up hatred for the Germans so insanely that Stalin had to pull him up short. If you feel toward the end of your life that you helped establish a lie, then what is required to justify yourself is not memoirs but an immediate bold self-sacrifice."
--Gulag Archipelago, Vol. 2, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Which proves that Ehrenburg did divulge that he was wrong, after the fact.
Is THAT what you think Solzhenitsyn is saying? oh...kay...
Nevertheless... my original point in posting the quote was this amazing statement:
"Ehrenburg heated up hatred for the Germans so insanely that Stalin had to pull him up short."
If even the Monster Stalin seemed to think that Ehrenburg was over the line... just how bad was Ehrenburg actually being?
From my post:
A fascinating book, actually. He tells us that those who were used to being THE denunciators... well... what goes around actually DID come back around... with a vengeance! A preview.
I don't suppose you actually read it.
Your supposition is wrong, thank God.
You quoted from another Solzhenitsyn book, from a volume that hasn't been translated into English. You know how I know it hasn't been translated? His sons do his translations into English, because they were raised here.
Do you think that only Solzhenitsyn's sons know English and Russian? Since the book IS available in Russian, the English WILL learn it. The demand is there... despite the nay-saying of the press and its satellite drones.
