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I don't think the average person could put together such thoughtful prose in this day in age. It's very sad to read.

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Clearly, he was not an average person.

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This was absolutely riveting. Thank you for sharing these letters. Reading them, I am overwhelmed by the thought of how many promising young lives have been snuffed out because men who never met them or cared about them indulged their all-consuming lust for power.

In "All Quiet on the Western Front" there's a scene where one of the main characters is trapped in a trench with an enemy soldier he's killed. He speaks to the dead boy (they are both teenagers), and laments, "if we took off these uniforms, we could be brothers."

It is a tragic pattern of history that those who want to live in peace and freedom must fight and die to resist those who wish to dominate them. Even more tragic are the times - and they are far more numerous - when war is waged to further interests that have nothing to do with the common man or his brother who happened to be born on the other side of a national border.

"The time of waiting, that is the ordeal." Indeed it is!

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Thanks for sharing the letters. My mother's father lost 2 brothers in WW2.. one in the Battle of Anzio along the Vulturno and the other at Cabantuan prison. We can wonder about their bravery, vulnerability and deepest thoughts on their last days.

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A moving piece.

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Imagine being such an enormous CVCK on 1945-4-4!

Apologies for having stopped reading you, this is brilliant! And written by a traitor, no less! (By the name of Kim?!). I wonder what Uncle Adolf would have thought about this case - the supreme irony is that this guy could write so beautifully precisely thanks to National Socialism, to Germany, to Europe - which he was fighting against.

The best, truest thing about this Realität is the stories anyway - the story of this chap, or that of the bunker in the final days, or the Zoroastrian priests tending to the fire.

Still, despite my adoration of Hitlerism, I of course can pristinely imagine the kind of negative selection for the Gestapo mongrels, no doubt there. Ian Kershaw's "The End: Hitler's Germany, 1944–45" (2011) recounts the story of a German town hanging a traitor, while surrendering literally minutes after.

This is why I instinctively abhor this Christian race, and yearn for something akin to the mass suicides of Okinawa. The greatest battle is that of culture.

Please, stop saying nonsense about "tens of millions of people executed in the GULAG [camps]", as per Wikipaedia, it was 1.6 mil. over 20 years - which encompassed the most vicious war in the history of man. And Khrushchev's rehabilitation of political prisoners (incl. my Galician CIA flunkeys) doubtless contributed to the formal extinguishment of the final vestiges of the Faustian spirit in 1991.

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Hi Adunai, thanks for the comment. I don't begrudge you stopping reading me; I think people naturally gravitate toward those with the same values, and my unusual niche of wanting a partial transvaluation of values to a warrior/priestly mix is not the same as those who want a full transvaluation of values to pure warrior values with genocide and such, as Cesar Tort does. I agree with Tom Holland that the vast majority of people have internalized Christian values and there is a reason for that; under Roman values the vast majority of people (women, slaves, non-Romans, etc) had no value at all, and I don't think that's appropriate. But it's nice to have your insights if you do decide to keep reading.

Re: the estimates of tens of millions of dead in the Gulags, that estimate is from Solzhenitsyn (you can see the figure quoted here in an otherwise poor article: https://archive.ph/7C0G0#selection-1583.189-1583.294 )

I have read Solzhenitsyn's full Gulag Archipelago -- all 3 extremely dense and long volumes, which was a chore and a pain to get through, but quite scholarly and written in an atmosphere that put him in great danger -- and I have seen no reason to doubt his estimates.

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I don't agree with your assessment of Chechar - see his most recent post on his revulsion at the Roman mores.

https://westsdarkesthour.com/2023/06/24/caligula-3/

The Hindu Aryan values created a hierarchical society which had a place for the Dravidian servile castes, for one. The Romans did not do it, yet they did allow the Asians to proliferate - to their own demise. It's complicated.

"that estimate is from Solzhenitsyn" > Are we going to use fiction for determining history now? Like, holy fuck, why does every single person need to have a massive blind spot? Chechar cucks at the notion of cruel parenting preventing the rise of anarchic wusses, the Girl that I met, otherwise ridiculously intelligent, repeated the anti-Juche Korean propaganda... Many such cases.

I for one even recognise that my pet idea of Hitlerian-esque genocides in the future is contingent on its being recognised as a sound strategy by the historical actors therein, I don't clutch at the straws to make myself oblivious to counter-arguments. Stalin is the undisputed hero of the Russian race. He prevented the deaths of 200 million Russians.

Curious that your newspaper from 1990 talks of "death camps" (which the GULAG camps were explicitly not), and of Jews. Oy vey! The Jew slanders the Aryan Union.

I could suggest Klim Zhukov's YouTube series contra Soljenitsin, but it's in Russian, so I won't.

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Hi Adunai, Cesar may not agree with all aspects of Greco-Roman morality -- although this is a change, as he argued as recently as last year for it -- but his desire for exterminationism is I think a natural result of a push for pure warrior values, even if he may quibble on some of the particulars. He even wrote a book on the topic, I think.

Re: Stalin, it's a complicated topic. If you pick up the book "Conjuring Hitler", which I will likely write about, the central bank owners in England and the U.S. funded the rise of the Nazis, just as they funded the rise of the Bolsheviks, because they considered a German/Russian alliance to be the only real threat to their hegemony, so they helped install governments that viciously hated each other. Stalin was also likely about to attack Germany when Germany launched a pre-emptive attack with Barbarossa.

If you have a specific reason for considering Solzhenitsyn's work to be fiction and his estimates of gulag deaths to be 10-20x overstated, I would be interested to look at in. I have not heard such allegations thrown at him previously.

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Checharian exterminationism stems from his vehement indignation at the appalling and unnecessary suffering of children and animals. In what world is that "pure warrior values"? (He explicitly denies being seen as macho, as Autisticus Spasticus called him.)

Does that book by Preparata spend any attention on the question of Pilsudsky? Remember that the Bolshevik Russia was at its deathbed to the Poles and the White Russians. The Whites were sponsored by the West. So? Because otherwise, Germany and Russia would have been united in a Trotsky-Rosa alliance. And what would the Anglos have done then?

I remember Klim Zhukov and the Jew Remi Meisner cackling about the fable of prehistoric fish being dug up and eaten by hungry zeks - from under the pen of Soljenitsin. But regarding the death toll - why not check any number of modern historiography? Unless you would get entangled in the nonsense about "cultural Bolsheviks" being sympathetic to the USSR... because they seem not to be at all. Look at the continuous smearing of the Soviet Union in the recent Chernobyl TV film series by HBO.

Source: Healey, Dan (June 1, 2018). "GOLFO ALEXOPOULOS. Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag". The American Historical Review. 123 (3): 1049–1051. doi:10.1093/ahr/123.3.1049. New studies using declassified Gulag archives have provisionally established a consensus on mortality and "inhumanity." The tentative consensus says that once secret records of the Gulag administration in Moscow show a lower death toll than expected from memoir sources, generally between 1.5 and 1.7 million (out of 18 million who passed through) for the years from 1930 to 1953.

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Hi Adunai, I have spent a bit of time looking into the mortality figures of the Gulag based upon your prompt. The information is conflicting:

1) The following two links agree that the officially released figures of mortality are < 2 million as you state, however, they say the figures are dramatically reduced downwards by (1) official's regular use of medical release (so-called “aktirovka”) where prisoners who were about to die were released right before death to obscure cause of death, and (2) reclassification of deaths as "escapees". https://www.hoover.org/news/gulags-veiled-mortality-golfo-alexopoulos , https://blogs.helsinki.fi/gulagechoes/2022/03/24/escapes-concealing-death-the-importance-of-regional-archives-for-clarification-of-gulag-death-toll/

2) This Redditor claims that Solzhenitsyn was relying on incorrect data from statistician Ivan Kurganov, that Alexopoulos actually argues for 6 million deaths, that "most" historians claim 1.5-1.7, but others range from 9 million up to 20 million: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/l4p2of/comment/gkq41ff/

3) I did see this 1989 NYT link quoting a major Soviet paper that "about 20 million died in labor camps, forced collectivization, famine and executions", which lumps in the labor camps with famine and executions. https://archive.is/Gd5ME#selection-493.146-493.230

I think it would take a lot more research to feel comfortable with a real figure, but I acknowledge that the range is a lot wider than I thought and that Solzhenitsyn's number may be unreliable, depending on how accurate the Redditor is in his statement...as such I will update the post to read as "millions" instead of "tens of millions".

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Ah, thanks! Both for being truthful, and for the quick research. I do wonder whether the figure of 1.6 mil. accounts for the release of the sick - I doubt it would be raised by that much if not, however - let's say, 2-3 mil. in total.

But still, you have to understand that the highest mortality was reached in the 1940s. So why not subtract those numbers from the death toll? Now that would be unthinkable to anti-Communists!

And as regards the projected population numbers (as these links) - what's to say of the victory in WW2? The Bolsheviks could only carry partial blame for the Civil War already, and WW2 should be designated as a virtue. The 20th century was a stormy one, it's naïve to imagine a half a billion-strong Russia at the end of it (unless no February Revolution, that is).

https://mikhailove.livejournal.com/480088.html

https://mikhailove.livejournal.com/477991.html

https://and-kammerer.livejournal.com/943318.html

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Most beautiful. And so he lives on.

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What are these clues of the fellow's 'liberalism' that you detect in his writing? Why does his being a farmhand and a 'simple' seaman make him unexpectedly bright?

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Hi Larry, I am using the term "liberal" in the context of his support for a "rules based", internationalist world order led by the United States, versus the "illiberalism" of a monarchical or dictator based nationalist world order, not any of Kim's specific political positions which are unknown. Kim's joining of the resistance and his heartfelt hinted-at positions demonstrate that his views are ideological in nature.

Re: your second question, I know we have discussed this before: while the lower classes are less formally educated than the upper class, and hence (I would argue) generally less eloquent in their letters and dictation, I don't mean that as a knock on the intelligence or drive of people who work with their hands. They are usually far more in touch with reality than the elite liberals living in urban areas filled with pie-in-the-sky ideas fed to them from formal education. But the type of eloquence demonstrated by this guy speaks both to the much higher average IQs of prior generations, as well as Kim possessing some special abilities, especially given his background and youth.

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Well, JR, you know that no one nation was actively promoting and leading an internationalist world order back during WWII (except maybe Germany), so that particular definition of 'liberal' is time-restricted and doesn't apply to0 well the fellow. You could reasonably speculate, however, that his actions and attitudes naturally reflected the great general alarm and fear felt in the world over German actions taking place then, especially in nations more proximal to Germany like Denmark. Regarding your second point, characteristics like eloquence and unusual intelligence have always been -- Charles Murray's views notwithstanding -- widely spread throughout the human race and are not at all causally dependent on, as the British say, one's "position". As to the IQs of the present and past: as we have also previously discussed, there is quite a bit of evidence that IQ is a highly plastic, epigenetic characteristic -- seasonal in some circumstances, as Mullainathan and Shafir demonstrated. I'd argue that if there is really a decrease in average intelligence these days it's mostly being caused by the accumulating effects of the stress created by repetitively poor individual decision-making. No amount of huffing and puffing about ideological or spiritual positions held in the human mind is going to be able to reverse this trend. It's probably just going to have to play itself out.

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Hi Larry, I view the internationalist world order as starting with the creation of the Bank of England in 1694, which metastasized with the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913, and I view World War 2 as a German nationalist rebellion against that internationalist order. Yes, German had a collection of nation-state allies and considered itself at the center of it, but if you read Hitler's table talks you'll see he viewed governance very much based on nation-states and not an overarching internationalist order.

Regarding the second point, I agree with you that the trend is pretty far advanced and I don't see any signs of it abating, so unless something radical changes (which I see no signs of occurring) I agree that the process will play itself out and the average IQs will fall further...

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Nothing like taking over nation-states one by one for executing an alternative means of creating an overarching internationalist order, though. So, Hitler might have been just talking out of both sides of his mouth about governance based on nation-states in order to not scare the natives too soon. The German 'rebellion' you speak of might thus be viewed as just the entry of a new competitor into the internationalist order sweepstakes. Regardless, the power and exploitation games of the self-described big boys are mainly a troublesome nuisance and a botheration to most of those living under their influence, not an ideological motivation.

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"The German 'rebellion' you speak of might thus be viewed as just the entry of a new competitor into the internationalist order sweepstakes."

Yes, I agree it could be viewed that way, but (imo) more as an attempt to overthrow the basis of the western international order itself, which is the egalitarianism within Christianity. The Nazis were attempting a Nietzschian transvaluation of society's core values back to Roman warrior-esque "master morality" values, and its success if it succeeded would have undermined the basis of the entire western based international order.

Of course, it failed, and its failure as a challenge to the existing order served to supercharge the egalitarian values of western society, leading to present day enforced transsexualism and a flattening of everything to the lowest common denominator, a process which will only continue to get worse.

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Or so you fear. Me, I think it's really neither Christian egalitarianism or supposedly missing Roman warrior-esque social core values that are causing all the current human difficulties. First, these difficulties in my view are really only causing great discomfort and harm to a (probably minor) part of the human population, those with (to borrow a martial arts term) weaker stances on and within everyday reality. Maybe this part of humanity is experiencing a 'flattening of everything to the lowest common denominator', but this process isn't affecting all. If people have energy and move while they are not firmly attached to what irrefutably goes on in the world, then those energetic movements can only result in damaging flailing, flopping, and the generation of difficulty. A default attitude of egalitarianism doesn't, I think, harm the human stance on the ground of reality and lead to difficulty, but blind adoption of warrior-esque social core values surely can because it very mistakenly acts as if weakness and strength are naturally and personally static states. Big mistake, that.

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I think "curious creatures" referred to his torturers, not metaphysical entities. The passage seems to describe him perceiving them differently based on his torture induced out-of-body state.

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Thanks for sharing about the Archon activity. My contact with them is mostly in lucid dreams. They download intrusive sequences along the lines of fear, desire and social duty, mythic or religious theme to stroke the ego often with some precognition to keep you on the hook. Next big one appears to be July timeframe.. pyroclastic flow as metaphor for attack on major city or economic system.

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