Ruling

In ’37 Stalin made a hash
Of party loyalists and army brass.
Decimation: One in ten are shot.
What’s the word when one in ten are not?

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Jun 062018
 

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
DIVERSITY BRINGS US TOGETHER

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May 222018
 

The point of a special day for airing grievances is that all the other days are not.

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Apr 032018
 

Successful pedagogy requires the right students; successful governance, the right populace.

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Mar 282018
 

The cure for any political ideology is to be governed by it for a while.

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Mar 092018
 

It is almost no time at all between not being permitted to dissent and not being permitted to abstain.

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Feb 272018
 

Professing communism never saved a kulak, and professing Nazism never saved a Jew. Only the religious fanatics are that sporting.

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Feb 062018
 

At the beginning you go to the gulag for criticizing Stalin; toward the end for being first, when his name is mentioned, to stop applauding.