>>18005>>18008The point about tempering state control is that we can very easily fall back into a period of tyranny and tragedy if not careful, and are very much headed on the path for it. Not even a hundred years have passed since the Red Terror. Russia saw far, far worse than North Korea has ever seen at the hands of the same ideological foundations that are taken as given for any educated well-to-do young adult in the US/UK. The same could be said for France, their revolution and the modern world as a whole.
Here's a primary source on the red terror:
https://slrc-csa.org/PDF/Other/redterrorinrussia.pdfGets juicy in Chapter 6 - Che-Ka Tyranny, especially starting on page 162. Just skim through it for a real fun read. Some excerpts
>The first body to be exhumed was the body of Zhako-britsky, an ex-cornet of the 6th Hussars. He must have been cruelly beaten before death, for some of his ribs had been fractured, and there were thirteen scars on the body caused by pressure against some red-hot, circular implement. All the scars were on the front of the body save for a single stripe burnt upon the back. The skull of another corpse was found flattened into a single, smooth, round disk about a centimetre in thickness. Such expatulation of the head could have been caused only by enormous pressure between two flat objects. On a woman whose identity we could not establish we found seven stab and shot wounds. Also, manifestly she had been thrown into the grave before death.>And the Commission discovered corpses of persons who had been scalded fro head to foot with boiling liquid, and of persons who had been slowly (beginning with wounds intended only to torture, not to prove of a fatal character) hacked to death. And in every town in the region where concealed hiding-places had been available were corpses in a similar condition brought to light.>Nilostonsky goes on to describe the appearance of a “human slaughter-house” (he asserts that that had come actually to be the official appellation of such places) when, later, the Denikin Commission inspected one. The place had formerly been a garage, and then the provincial Che-Ka’s main slaughter-house. And the whole of it was coated with blood — blood ankle deep, coagulated with the heat of the atmosphere, and horribly mixed with human brains, chips of skull — bone, wisps of hair, and the like. Even the walls were bespattered with blood and similar fragments of brain and scalp, as well as riddled with thousands of bullet holes. In the centre was a drain about a quarter of a metre deep and wide, and about ten metres long. This led to the sanitary system of the neighbouring house, but was choked to the brim with blood.Yep. North Koreans don't have it that bad. But we're approaching it.
The simple trick to heinous mass murder is dehumanizing the victims such that it's equivalent to the slaughter of pigs. You know, like those anti-progressive bigots who are basically pigs who don't deserve to live except I'm vegan but anyway let them die or at least start with economically isolating them by firing them from their jobs for their political dissent. It's not murder if they die from starvation. How could this go wrong?
