The Counter-Revolutionary, always a thought-provoking writer (even when he pisses people off), has recently been translating entries from a Stalin-era Soviet encyclopedia of his possession from the original Russian. He's already done a fascinating (in fact, jaw-dropping) translation on the entry for Israel, which eerily echoes (or shows the original source for?) many of the hateful things said about Israel today by the ultra-Left. The entries on fascism (and on terror) are equally fascinating.
He recently asked me if there was anything else I'd like to see him translate. I thought about it and my mind went blank. But I'll bet there are Dean's World readers who have some ideas. So I throw open to the comments: what else would you like to see him translate from a Stalinist encyclopedia? Just leave a comment, and I'll make sure he sees them.
How about translating the Bill of Rights? I wonder what the Stalinist spin would be? I wonder how they wuld interpret "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness". i am particularly interested what they would have to say about the first 10 Amendments.
Processing.....
But the first thing I'd look up if I had it is... the Bering Straight (near Alaska).
Huh?
Reason being... as I understand it, when Stalin's hideous KGB henchman, Lavrenti Beria, was shot soon after big Joe's unlamented demise, an article about the Bering Straight was sent to holders of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Users were to paste the Bering Straight article over the one about Beria. (I kid you not.) I'd love to see that section of the enclyclopedia, or, if there is no update, read then about the wonderful glories of the pedophilic Beria, who I think could basically be desribed as Gollum, but in charge of world's largest and most murderous secret police organiztion.
Fun reading all around.
Andrew,
What is interesting is the similarities between Communism and Nazism....Hitler condemned "jewish science", Stalin did the same to "bourgeois science"....any sane person knows there is only science, but in the weird world of totalitarian tyrants, there has to be differences.
Sorry gentlemen -- empty on both counts.
There is no mention of the "Bill of Rights." But how could a country where the people are the "hired slaves of a small group of billionares" (V.I. Lenin) have rights?
And no mention of poor Comrade Beria. The volume that would have held his name was published in September 1953 -- no substituiton would have been needed.
I'd be interested in reading what it has to say about the Kulaks.
Dean,
Working on it -- in the meanwhile I posted a few quick translations on the media...
What does it say about Canada, specifically the CCF and the Regina Manifesto?