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suegeo

(2,863 posts) Wed Jan 22, 2025, 12:05 PM Jan 22

Samizdat

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https://www.rbth.com/arts/literature/2017/07/10/samizdat_797635

People in the USSR boasted of reading the most of any other nation. Not only did they read books purchased at bookstores, but they also risked their freedom by reading, publishing and distributing prohibited literature.

What unites the novels Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, and The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn? Today, they are among the most important books of the 20th century, with millions of copies sold, as well as studied by students in universities on five continents. Soviet readers, however, first saw these classic novels not on shelves in bookstores, but as handmade, 'underground' carbon copies that readers clandestinely passed along to each other. Thanks to samizdat (which literally means "self-published&quot

did works by Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn – and many other novels, poems and songs – gain wide popularity in the Soviet Union.

This post is my train of thought about how to fight back without going through the sewage of controlled GOP garbage platforms, media outlets. etc.

Maybe we print and share and copy our own literature about Fascist America 2024, 2025. Pin to bulletin boards cartoons that humiliate Musk, Trump, Zuckerberg, Bezos.

Leave copies of articles about the felon's crimes inside library books, books at Target, etc.

Create stickers that say "I did that!" with Trump's ugly mug on them. Put them next to cartons of eggs, gas pumps.

What with the sewage bots on Twitter, Facebook I know that the truth is not being told or lived much anymore.

The major media is all owned by billionaires who want to oppress us, disrespect American workers, and thinkers.

DJT said out loud, twice, during a Jan. 19, 2025 rally that the election was rigged for him in 2024. They absolutely stole the office that the convicted felon and insurrectionist is not qualified to hold.

Grab the sound of DJT saying his bros stole the 2024 election. Play it on student radio. Places where the traditional media won't be.
TO INSERT: TikTok by ZU here. Greatly coded so the censors don't get it banned. Sound of the smelly cheater and rapist is in lower right.
TO INSERT: Tilley on TikTok, of the rapist saying his allies/bros rigged the election for the rapist in 2024
ON EDIT: Greater than the above sound is the sound of the rapist saying Elon campaigned in Pennsylvania for the rapist. Elon is so good with computers, the vote counting computers. And the rapist continued that with the "fact" that he went on to win Pennsylvania in a landslide.

Isn't Pennsylvania the place where the nazi party passed a law that said mail in ballots cannot be counted until all the in-person votes are done. It took 5 days or so to count all the votes for Joe Biden in Pennsylvania. When Joe won, people in France rung church bells.

I want to be able to come back here with more thoughts. I picked up Samizdat while reading The Power of the Powerless by Vaclav Havel et. al. That book is quite the read.

My grandmother came to America from Czechoslovakia. I like to write.
They want us to shut up, already. I say "Fuck em."

I also want to choose WHO I listen to. WHO I read. At a granular level, such as watching specific nobody's on TikTok who are telling what's really going on in their neighborhoods. Speaking truth. Advice about mental health and how to gray rock narcissists and sociopaths on YouTube. Podcasts of women about women's human rights.

Where's the good stuff that is being banned. I want the banned books + books like Vaclav Havel et al that showed how to get out of shitty situations that deny human rights and freedom.

I prefer women, since nobody usually listens to us. Even though we are smarter than men, generally. Black women,

And not some dumbass that a Nazi picked to bloviate on FOX News. Or some reporter that can't publish stories in the Washington Post because Billionaire Bezos sez so. The faces that get promoted to speak in MSM are kinda not worth my time or mind anymore.

On Edit: Hat tip to Sophie Scholl et. al.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hans-and-sophie-scholl-were-once-hitler-youth-leaders-why-did-they-decide-to-stand-up-to-the-nazis-180981643/

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Samizdat (Original Post) suegeo Jan 22 OP

K&R Think. Again. Jan 22 #1

DU post before me that might point to some places that I pick suegeo Jan 22 #2

The younger humans are doing the music on TikTok. suegeo Thursday #3

Print this out. Throw around town. suegeo Thursday #4

Operation Paperclip: Is it any wonder GOP tech bros are fascist? suegeo Friday #5

Blint Magyar. Coined the term "Mafia State" suegeo Friday #6

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6. Blint Magyar. Coined the term "Mafia State"

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Fri Jan 24, 2025, 01:37 PM

Friday

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2016/03/14/putin-mafia-state-lesin-killing/#:~:text=The%20term%20%E2%80%9Cmafia%20state%E2%80%9D%20was%20pioneered%20by%20B%C3%A1lint,sociologist%20in%20Hungary%2C%20Russia%E2%80%99s%20closest%20ally%20in%20Europe.

The term “mafia state” was pioneered by Bálint Magyar, a sociologist in Hungary, Russia’s closest ally in Europe.

Magyar and his colleagues have elaborated on the concept in the last decade, as Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán has amassed power, eliminated political and economic rivals, and turned the institutions of his state into instruments of personal power. So important is this concept to Hungarian intellectuals’ understanding of what has happened to their society that an edited collection of twenty sociological articles on the topic sold 15,000 copies there—an almost unheard-of figure for an academic volume anywhere, especially in a country of 9.8 million people.

The concept is little-known outside of Hungary, though Magyar believes it describes the regimes in three other post-Communist states: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Russia. (Magyar’s own book, Post-Communist Mafia State: The Case of Hungary, has just been translated into English.)

Someone should write a book about where the right has been trying to take America that last few decades.
"Post-Republic Mafia State: The Case of the United States"

The puppet himself is involved in the mob. Casinos. Money Laundering. Epstein. Young Girls. Threatening Stormy Daniels. Concrete. Transnational Organized Crime. Working with Russia to steal elections. The Mueller Report.

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