Hi folks,
Just wanted to share a little something I read over the weekend, from "How To Be God" (Andre Deutsch, 1986) by expat Hungarian, George Mikes.
It's a reference to a "brilliant and frightening analysis of Stalinism" by Nobel Prize-winning Polish author Ceslav Milos; I'd be interested to hear if anyone gets resonances from this similar to the ones I picked up...
"[Milos] stated that there were a hundred and one basic tenets of the Creed and if someone doubted a single one of them he was branded a traitor to Communism and thrown into prison or, perhaps, tortured to death.
"No one, not even Stalin himself, believed in all the hundred and one dogmas but all behaved as if they did. People who did not believe in the Creed persecuted and prosecuted others who did not believe in it either. This was an era, said Milos, when strict orthodoxy was maintained by a gang of unbelievers."
One to file under 'things that make you go hmmmmm...'
"If this is Paradise, I wish I had a lawnmower..."
- Talking Heads, "(Nothing But) Flowers"