Truth stranger than fiction

[med_cat]

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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...

Comments

[full_metal_ox]

Catch-22s (and yes, I’ve read the book) are a fundamental building block of authoritarian systems; I’m not even remotely surprised.

[med_cat]

As you say...not surprising, but such fine examples of situational irony...

(you can read Russian, then? or auto-translate? ;))

[full_metal_ox]

This ignorant Anglo-diasporic Yank cannot even remotely read Russian; I availed myself of this: https://translate.yandex.com/en/ocr

[med_cat]

Hehe :) It worked, so ;)

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