Enemy of the people, battle rifles, Nikita Khrushchev too..

August 17th, 2018 by Charles Cameron

Now that’s a dangerous cascade, don’t you think, from Trump’s identification of certain “enemies of the people” via Alex Jones’ call for regular folks to have their “battle rifles” ready — via Khrushchev’s finding an earlier Russian echo of Trump’s phrase in Stalin’s, to Stalin’s tens of millions dead..

Take a deep enough breath..

Synonyms for shiver, the noun:

tremble, quiver, shake, shudder, quaver, quake, tremor, twitch

There’s quite a bit of poetry in that list. And..

Shiver, the verb:

shake slightly and uncontrollably as a result of being cold, frightened, or excited.

I’d say that cascade frightens me, with maybe some excitement peering out from behind the fright, just because in it there’s a premonition of conflict.. oh, and fright rhymes with excite..

Let me let you in on a secret: the poetry may be a distraction from the fright, but if so it’s a welcome distraction.

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  1. zen:

    August 18th, 2018 at 2:57 am

    Ah, Khrushchev.
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    He had a great deal of blood on his hands, especially in the Ukraine. Not as much as Stalin or Beria or Yezhov but among Stalin’s henchmen it was very extensive. It was part of the reason that Khrushchev survived when cleverer men around the dictator like Bukharin, Kamenev, Voznesensky, Tukhachevskii did not. I think Khrushchev suffered from a guilty conscience and it showed not only in his retirement years but when he wielded supreme power. Quite consciously, Khrushchev did not want to be a sociopathic monster and instead clung to the idea of restoring “Leninism”.
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    Unfortunately, that fig leaf prevented Khrushchev from grappling morally with what he had done. “Hundreds of thousands of innocents” was not a mistake. Khrushchev himself was directly responsible for deaths on that scale. It was Khrushchev only counting the “good Party comrades”, the loyal Stalinists that Stalin annihilated for no reason that he counted as victims. Khrushchev did open the camps but rehabilitation for the zeks was very slow in coming, some of them had to wait for Glasnost and perestroika.

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    Khrushchev as a Leninist still believed in enemies of the people and that *some* of Stalin’s mass killings, certainly the collectivization, had been a historical necessity.

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    Without minimizing Khrushchev’s efforts at reforming the USSR, in moral terms he never came to grips with his crimes

  2. Charles Cameron:

    August 19th, 2018 at 2:14 am

    Thanks, Zen. Your history lesson is concentrated and eminently profitable for this snail-slow student.