Those inside Moscow I'd guess. We think of gulags as prisons, with defined locations. But it seems as if they were more temporary. Which makes sense when considering (at least some of them) they were for construction jobs, which might take you from the Moscow to the Volga, or from the Baltic to the white sea.
Another prisoner, who had been in Sin Sing, San Quentin, as well as in jails of England, Spain and Germany, before he was picked up by the Soviets for grand larceny, had been reclaimed by the Baltic-White Sea Canal. He had done a bit of engineering in his youth, and was promptly given a chance to work at this specialty. He won a medal, pursued his studies further, and was doing brilliant work on the Moscow-Volga Canal when Dr. Callcott met him. To her query about his reformation he replied: “In the other countries they treated me like a prisoner, clapped me in jail and taught me my place. Here they clapped me on the back and said 'What can we do to make you into a useful citizen?'”
[...] Bolshevo Commune, the most famous “cure” for criminals can be entered only by application approved by the general meeting of members. Its waiting list is so long that it accepts only the most hardened cases, priding itself on being able to make over persons who cannot become cured in any other institution. Its strength lies in its large membership of intelligent former criminals, who apply to new entrants their intimate knowledge of the criminal mind.
I tried playing "Last Train Home". I couldn't, it was too stupid for me. It got me interested in the [Russian] civil war though, anybody got anything good to read?
"already freed" links to [Bullshit] LOL. Such rationality! Such logic. I shall merely declare it bullshit, and voila, it is.
Taiwan is part of China and a US puppet at the same time
Links to [Doublethink]. Rationality and things being more complicated than a light-switch? No can do!
China lifted 800 million people out of poverty!
Links to nothing! At least they are willing to take this and not argue about it?
95% of Chinese support the CPC!
Argument ad populum they declare. I can into bingo too! How long before I can cross off "brainwashing" from mine? Even if they somehow veer outside of that, what is this supposed to mean? Ah, you see, the fact that people like the CPC doesn't make it good. What? Should the Chinese actually hate the CPC, like Statsians hate their parties? Such rationality! A hated party is good, a liked party is bad.
I took a look at Argument ad populum. They had this quote from Bill Maher:
Eat shit. Twenty trillion flies can't be wrong.
Such rationality! HUMANS AND FLIES ARE NOT THE SAME. It doesn't matter if twenty trillion flies do something. THEY ARE NOT HUMANS. IT DOES NOT APPLY TO HUMANS. HUMANS AND FLIES ARE DIFFERENT. SUCH FUCKING RATIONALITY.
Two things I think could be helpfull: Adding a new book in calibre is done in the drop down (small arrow) next to Add Books, you can also add an empty epub there.
EPUBs are XHTML, so HTML 4 and ... CSS 2? Essentally keep any HTML and CSS simple. I tried to use grid once, that worked in calibre, but once I opened it in koreader, it was borked.
Calibre. You can actually download this book and add it to calibre, then click edit book to see what I've done with it.
If you already know how to do HTML+CSS, you are going to have an easier time.
But it goes something like: Find book, search for it on annas-archive to find the best/cleanest copy I can, run that through OCR (I use OCRMyPDF, just because it's easy, but it doesn't have to be it, just anything that will output a TXT file), create a new book in calibre and add an empty EPUB, open that EPUB and add the "ComLib standard [CSS] imports" (see This Soviet World), then just copy from OCR into EPUB, read through it (with the PDF open on another screen) while adding HTML+CSS and re-writing anything that isn't quite correct.
If you need help with anything, do ping me! If you finish one, do send it over to me so I can upload it on ComLib!
Thanks! This is also hard work. I crammed... I guesstimated 1 hour per chap. yesterday, so somewhere along ~16 hours in these three last days.
It's great because I also get to read these things. I have some difficulty with sitting down and reading stuff (I have only read 3 of the 5 in crits beginner list + what's on my website... yea, in ~7-8 months.), so this helps.
Welp, on to the next book! (whatever that's gonna be, not sure, if you want something you might just get it.) I'll start on it, then [ADD] on it for a month or two before cramming it in a few days, just as I have done the last three books.
^ OMG Look! Trans flag in display name!