asciilifeform: and sold in 'history for kidz' sections of trendoid bookstores.
asciilifeform: we may yet live to see boschean marvels like this one drawn about modern folks.
asciilifeform: but rather the glass bead game pushed by half-educated fans of norbert wiener & co. at the time.
asciilifeform: incidentally, few modern armchair generals seem to know that the forbidden 'cybernetics' had nothing to do with the construction of calculating machines
asciilifeform: not because of the red hot poker, either.
asciilifeform: 'when we clean out his starfish, quickly he'll remember how he undermined soviet power and the party in his research institute with his cybernetics, this scoundrel...'
asciilifeform: the most mortal sin was, as one might expect, snitching, followed by welching on debts.
asciilifeform: for real, as well as imagines, slights.
asciilifeform: the man i quoted re: the meatgrinder was employed as a detective embedded in a prison, in what was then leningrad. he had an interesting take: much of what the rubes think of as 'the cruelty' was simply administration of justice among the convicts
asciilifeform: by some accounts, the old traditions have died, and the days when a man would be severely punished for an 'unearned' tattoo are gone.
asciilifeform: anyone interested in this subject can find all the reading material he wishes.
asciilifeform: ex. of the latter: a devil stoking a furnace (drawn around actual arse, it being the furnace)
asciilifeform: historians divide the tats into two basic types, 'voluntary' and 'forcible.'
asciilifeform: russian blogger, circa '04: 'have you ever beaten a man? had you done so, you would know that it is hard work. no less arduous than turning a meat-grinder. how often do you wake up to the urge to crank a meat-grinder? every day?'☟︎
asciilifeform: many arguments were against the 'political' slant of the book, rather than the facts. 'some english chick is sitting on a rat pot right now, but where's the book, hah.'
asciilifeform: baldaev got quite a lot of shit for these, many folks insisted that he simply drew his fantasies (during his employment as a prison guard)
asciilifeform: h 'flute', a rolled up tube for the ease of entry of ants. to the legs would be tied a 'spreader stick.' often the executioners were helped by female 'vor' ['thief-in-law'] inmates.'
asciilifeform: 'some demented people in gulag during the years of the cult, for their amusement, would select women from the contigent of 'enemies of the people' and for 'some sin' sit them down upon anthills.' bottom: 'young women who refused to become lovers of their executioners in gulag would be sat upon anthills, tied to trees, 'for the mosquitoes and ants.' sometimes a pipe would be inserted, made from a reed or a birc☟︎
asciilifeform: never know who the bullock is until, well, bullock time
asciilifeform: 'convicts, during escapes from far nothern camps of gulag lured with them (due to the impossibility of gathering adequate provisions while imprisoned) other inmates, who would be killed en route. such victims of cannibalism were known in convict argot as 'bullocks.' how many 'bullocks' were eaten up, is unknown.'
asciilifeform: 'the slaying by a convict of a 'bullock' during an escape from camp.'
asciilifeform: i suggest 'teflon' for the case at hand.
asciilifeform: (unfortunately lack the 'citation needed' here)
asciilifeform: by some accounts, spikes (well, splinters) were considered a mercy, and used in extenuating circumstances, while grease on a smooth stake was used in aggravating ones.
asciilifeform: imho gilged stake is too good for these folks.
