Vasily Grossman wrote the "War and Peace" for WWII in the two-volume "Stalingrad" and "Life and Fate". I can't recommend them enough, and they provide a wonderful look at Stalin's Soviet Union and Hitler's Germany. They are both hellish societies, but you realize that what we all hate about them is not the economic system. (one derives f…
Vasily Grossman wrote the "War and Peace" for WWII in the two-volume "Stalingrad" and "Life and Fate".
I can't recommend them enough, and they provide a wonderful look at Stalin's Soviet Union and Hitler's Germany. They are both hellish societies, but you realize that what we all hate about them is not the economic system. (one derives from capitalism and one from communism). What makes them awful is that they are authoritarian police states based on fear, where everyone is afraid to talk.
That's the danger we are facing now in the US, and what the people need to do is put aside theoretical differences and unite behind removing the bought politicians of both parties and scaling back the national security state spying and policing agencies.
Vasily Grossman wrote the "War and Peace" for WWII in the two-volume "Stalingrad" and "Life and Fate".
I can't recommend them enough, and they provide a wonderful look at Stalin's Soviet Union and Hitler's Germany. They are both hellish societies, but you realize that what we all hate about them is not the economic system. (one derives from capitalism and one from communism). What makes them awful is that they are authoritarian police states based on fear, where everyone is afraid to talk.
That's the danger we are facing now in the US, and what the people need to do is put aside theoretical differences and unite behind removing the bought politicians of both parties and scaling back the national security state spying and policing agencies.