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The following text is the transcript by V. S. of Jonathan Bowden’s New Right lecture of  February 4, 2012. I want to thank Michèle Renouf for making the recording available.  (more…)

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for Robert Conquest

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Each day Naftaly greets a prison train.
Two days ago: spies and reactionaries,
yesterday: kulaks from Ukraine,
this morning: counter-revolutionaries.

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Nikolai Getman, "Gulag Prisoners"

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I see your noble face behind barbed wire,
looking out at endless taiga, greeted
only by cold. The laughter of the liar
who put you there is still loud in your ears,
although in far-off Moscow now—he’s seated,
the hooked-nosed slayer of the highborn rich,
sadist and defiler of Slavic daughters,
egalitarian savant and snitch.

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