Communism 101

How society distributes luxuries shows how it values labor.

I found the introduction (by someone else) a bit annoying, why are you telling me about Biden and Trump, to introduce a book about German Communists, written by a French person? but that's just a small gripe.

Despite the image cultivated by the misogynist Hollywood publicity machine, Marilyn Monroe was a highly politicized woman, a performer of sharp comic intelligence, a canny architect of her own image, and a woman who reshaped the possibilities for female stardom on screen.

Kirov Reservoir, Kyrgyzstan

I'll go back if you will!

politics

"I remember how people fainted from the heat in the so-called bathhouse, and then they were doused with cold water. I remember the disinfection of the barracks, after which there was a buzzing in the ears, and many had a nosebleed, and that steam room, where all our rags were processed with great “dilience”. One day the steam room burned down, depriving many people of their last clothes."