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⌈ Secret Post #2632 ⌋

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[Game of Thrones]

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[Patrick Stump / Fall Out Boy]

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[Men in Black, Agent Coulson]

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[Twin Peaks]

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[Defenders of Berk/How To Train Your Dragon 2]

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[Lily Allen]

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[Attack on Titan]

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[The Brittas Empire]

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[Panic! at the Disco]

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[Frozen]

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If you're up for a real challenge and have free time to burn, the quintessential book on Stalinism is The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz. The beginning and ending chapters are dense as all hell, so it can be tricky to understand, but the central chapters are much less ponderous and quite interesting. He takes four great writers--a comedian, a tragedian, a Holocaust memoirist, and a poet--and explains how they all wound up bowing down to Stalinism in one way or another. (Tadeusz Borowski, "The Disappointed Lover," is actually one of my favorite writers, and his downfall is heartbreaking.) If you can get through it, I also recommend the chapter on the concept of ketman--it turns out the roleplaying game Paranoia provided a MUCH more accurate portrayal of totalitarianism than I realized.

ayrt - I can second the recommendation for The Captive Mind, it's quite good and absorbing.

Most of the other books in this general area that I've read have more to do with Nazi regime than the Soviets. Strongly recommend Primo Levi's books, though.

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