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Truth stranger than fiction

Dec. 27th, 2024 at 5:15 PM
med_cat: (woman reading)
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Item #2:

t.me/stalin_gulag/10373

...truly, it would've been difficult to have a vivid enough imagination to think up such news...

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[personal profile] full_metal_ox
Dec. 28th, 2024 01:04 am (UTC)
Catch-22s (and yes, I’ve read the book) are a fundamental building block of authoritarian systems; I’m not even remotely surprised.
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[personal profile] med_cat
Dec. 30th, 2024 03:14 pm (UTC)
As you say...not surprising, but such fine examples of situational irony...

(you can read Russian, then? or auto-translate? ;))
full_metal_ox: A gold Chinese Metal Ox zodiac charm. (Default)
[personal profile] full_metal_ox
Dec. 30th, 2024 05:55 pm (UTC)
This ignorant Anglo-diasporic Yank cannot even remotely read Russian; I availed myself of this: https://translate.yandex.com/en/ocr
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[personal profile] med_cat
Dec. 30th, 2024 09:07 pm (UTC)
Hehe :) It worked, so ;)

(re: Catch-22 book, I'd not read it, in case you'd wondered)
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