asciilifeform: and the Bolsheviks "look good" to most people.' etc
asciilifeform: 'Why do the anticommunist "scholars", both in Russia and the West, ignore all this evidence? Why do they continue to promote the false notions that no conspiracies existed and that Stalin, not Ezhov, decided to execute hundreds of thousands of innocent people? The only possible explanation is that they do this for ideological reasons alone. The truth, as established by an examination of the primary source evidence, would make Stalin
asciilifeform definitely had some 'how do they breathe here' episodes in BingoBoingostan.
asciilifeform: sounds quite like 'dmv' back home, neh
asciilifeform: i thought this was the expected output ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: what have they done nao?
asciilifeform: keep in mind that there is not currently a simple knob to display ~solely~ those mods that will pop from this run.
asciilifeform: unrelatedly, jurov collection expected to be fully eaten in 3-4 hrs. mircea_popescu , trinque , if you feel like switching on phuctor-deedbot-ticker prior to the 7mil keys being crunched, lemme know. ( if not , also say, then i'ma run it without waiting )☟︎
asciilifeform: afaik , ~100% of the claimed 'how i organized failed coup' detail is , by itself, plausible.
asciilifeform: in re ezhov's confessions, i have no particular structure on which to hang the post-sov 'canonical' interpretation where they're 'scripted and 100% rubbish'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: why, out of curiosity, 'bologna system'
asciilifeform: the folx who 'let' , prolly existed, but we will not know who they were.
asciilifeform: i suspect that if had had been slightly smarter, along the axis contemplated here, he would prolly be remembered as just another purged d00d, along with tuhachevsky
asciilifeform wonders why modern students read guderian, but (typically) not zhukov
asciilifeform: ( with the correct gesticulation, even )
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's pet was just not long ago singing it, lol☟︎
asciilifeform: unless we're thinking of different things
asciilifeform: by '34 su had already cranked through 2-3 turns of the cycle
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: copied how, with time machine ?
asciilifeform: the folx fighting over the scraps evidently disagree.
asciilifeform: sorta how roman mosaics continued to decorate sword hilts long past expiration date of western empire
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the fight over remnants of old infrastructure, esp. still-operating chumpatrons (hollywood etc) i expect will continue for many years
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: out of curiosity, why rent car in a country where cab ride across town costs a buck ?
asciilifeform: ( today, not in faberge's time, naturally )
asciilifeform: i suspect that subtracting the rolex,vertu,patek,etc. pseudo-craftsman industrial garbage, leaves the null set tho.☟︎
asciilifeform: ( asciilifeform was informed that his usa driving license worx in uruguay. but not for a minute considered 'nao where do i find something to drive..' )
asciilifeform: just how many tourists drive themselves with own hands, anyway☟︎
asciilifeform had nfi that this existed to begin with
asciilifeform: i'm beginning to suspect that mircea_popescu is thinking strictly of civilization-era veblens ( faberge, lampshades ) to the exclusion of what passes for'em today, under this word
asciilifeform: ( supposedly still exists somewhere )
asciilifeform: stalin, according to traditional legend, had ashtray from hitler's skull
asciilifeform: even in fdr's empire. there is a letter preserved, where he thanked a d00d who gifted him iirc a japanese skull
asciilifeform: several possible variations on this theme. but for some reason out of fashion.
