Re-education and the Gulags
The Solovki Camp
Image from the University of Glascow
We are being taught that biggest crime is to be counter narrative; to oppose the state. The method this has been taught is through the concept of ‘misinformation’ or ‘disinformation’. That is you become an enemy of the state by virtue of expression of counter-narrative speech. Imagine this in a country that espouses to protect free speech.
Image from the Western Standard
According to the Western Standard, this is what is occurring in Canada in the high profile case of Jordan Peterson who must submit to mandatory ‘reeducation’. There is censorship of course (de rigueure)
“Prominent Canadian psychologist and author Dr. Jordan Peterson said the College of Psychologists of Ontario (CPO) is demanding he do a course about social media etiquette.
“BREAKING: the Ontario College of Psychologists @CPOntario has demanded that I submit myself to mandatory social-media communication retraining with their experts for, among other crimes, retweeting @PierrePoilievre and criticizing @JustinTrudeau and his political allies,” said Peterson in a Tuesday tweet”
Peterson said Canada is now a place where “practicing professionals can have their livelihoods and public reputations threatened in a very serious manner for agreeing with the Official Opposition and criticizing major government figures.” The terms of his punishment will be announced publicly if he complies.
He went on to say he has the second most serious category of punishment levied against him and has been deemed high risk to reoffend.
He warned Canadians their doctors, lawyers, psychologists, and other professionals are “now so intimidated by their commissar overlords that they fear to tell you the truth.” This means Canadians' care and legal counsel has been rendered unreliable.”
Trudeau calls Canadians “They don’t believe in science often misogynists, often racist… do we tolerate these people… they hold unacceptable views.” What is an unacceptable view. Well what is an acceptable view, then that is how we define. Therein lies the rub. Those in power get to define what is an ACCEPTABLE VIEW. Deviation from that narrow point in time line, is by definition Un- acceptable.
Don’t step out of line. March in sequence.
In order to assist the most thorough collating of misinformation or disinformation we have enabled through the Liberal-NDP government’s the watching of the internet, social media and broadcasts. We have begun the idea that division is more important than a united and strong Canada. And we have decided to weaponize concepts of professional bodies to reign in speech and morph society.
The distance we have covered in the short years since 2020 is frightening truly. The most thorough example of re-education is the Gulag. In this case it was, Re-education through labor. Of course death is also a common result. More horrific was the theme of torture, and inhumane conditions.
In Lenin’s Russia the clergy, noblemen, political dissidents, writers, poets, and many thousands of others were rounded up to meet their fate in the gulag. Here is an example.
Line 1 (L-R)
1) Mikhail Rozanov (1902-1989), writer
2) Ol'ga Adamova-Sliozberg (1902-1991), economist
3) Igor' Chernavin (1887-1949), ichthyologist
4) Mikhail Poloz (1891-1937), politician
5) Archbishop Petr (Zverev), (1878-1929), clergyman
6) Boris Rudanovskii (1907-1937), economist
7) Grigorii Poliakov (1876-1938), ornithologist
8) Nikolai Gor'skii (?-?), navy officer
Line 2 (L-R)
1) Aleksei Zakhvatkin (1905-1950), biologist
2) Ivan Ozerov (1869-1942), economist
3) Ekaterina Olitskaia (1899-1974), politician
4) Pavel Florenskii (1882-1937), clergyman, philosopher, scientist
5) Evgenii Pluzhnik (1898-1936), poet, playwright
6) Viktor Kharodchinskii (1913-1937), politician
7) Valer'ian Pidmogil'nyi (1901-1937), writer
8) Mikhail Martynov (1898-1937), economist
Line 3 (L-R)
1) Nikolai Vinogradov (1876-1938), ethnographer
2) Iurii Chirkov (1919-1988), geologist
3) Sergei Shchegol'kov (1915-2004), locksmith
4) Vladimir Zotov (1903-1978), set designer
5) Mikhail Nikonov-Smorodin (1889-1964), agronomist
6) Lev Martiukhin (1914-1996), builder, poet
7) Ivan Solonevich (1891-1953), journalist
8) Sozer'ko Mal'sagov (1893-1976), army official
Line 4 (L-R)
1) Mark Voronoi (1904-1937), poet
2) Ol'ga Vtorova-Iafa (1876-1959), pedagogue
3) Dmitrii Likhachev (1906-1999), academic
4) Lada Mogilianskaia (1899-1937), poet
5) Mikhail Frolovskii (1905-1943), poet
6) Vladimir Lozina-Lozinskii (1885-1937), clergyman
7) Viktor Vasil'ev (1916-2002), poet
8) Evgeniia Mustan'gova (1905-1937), literary critic
All images in the grid are © Solovki State Historical, Architectural and Natural Museum-Reserve, apart from those of Dmitrii Likhachev and Nikolai Vinogradov which are © International Memorial Moscow.
We should never believe that the horrors of the past could never be used again to silence or punish political enemies.
When we see speech needing to conform to a political narrative, or that unacceptable views must be shamed, or altered through the loss of livelihood, or re-edcuation, we must stay. STOP. This goes no where good.
For those who believe that you cannot go too far left, or that your views are acceptable, I must caution you. Your contempt for free speech will push this dangerous re-education to the point of social horror.
https://gulaghistory.org/exhibits/days-and-lives.html
“The Solovki Camp - An Introduction
From 1923 to 1939 the Solovki Archipelago, a small group of islands in the White Sea off mainland Russia, was home to one of the Soviet Union’s earliest labour camps. The Solovki Camp, also known as the Solovki Special Purpose Prison Camp or SLON, is widely regarded as the 'first Gulag' of the USSR. These forced labour camps were instated by Vladimir Lenin for the ‘re-education’ of undesirable citizens. It is hard to estimate how many prisoners passed through the Gulag system during the years the Soviet Union was active, but under Stalin the Gulag came to symbolise the systematic repression of any citizen who was seen to oppose the state”
Could governments who watch their citizens and decide on acceptable views also put them in Gulags. Would you trust our same governments who have decided there is a notion of acceptable or narrative speech. Would you trust them for instance with Forced quarantine Camps.
Please watch this below Documentary on the Gulags to fully understand the dangers of ACCEPTING IN WESTERN DEMOCRACY THE CONCEPT OF UNACCEPTABLE VIEWS.
I have discussed the concept of Recency Bias with a loved one. It was in the context of rates and the economy. We in western democracies, whether the US, Canada, Europe, New Zealand or Australia, have had a fair run where freedoms were protected. Thus we assume they always will be. We have had a run where elections have been fair and transparent. Thus, we assume, they always will be. We have trust in our institutions such that any of us who showed worry over the overreach during the pandemic were ridiculed by the likely McKinzie PR et al as freedumb fighters. Ridicule is powerful - FYI it is time to utilize is at all time.
The purposes of Constitutions are to curb government powers against the citizens. Yet the opposite is now occurring. These governments are writing out lists and lists of new laws that tighten the noose very slowly. All the while we look at the big shinny things meant to distract us. The press should never be so compromised nor have such a collection of power or association with governments. This approximates state media. Again where do we see these in history and in society. No where good.
In a free and democratic society, the only thing we really need to be kept safe from, is a government granting itself excessive powers. This never ends good. I urge those who believe censoring their neighbors, or insisting we all hold the same views is necessary, to reconsider the types of governments and times in history where these view points were also popular.
When you notice that it is the government who wants to push division, it is because through division it will grant itself the powers to quell the forces it does not approve of. You will not long be in the approved category. In fact in such regimes there is no safe category. There is a reason they called the Gulag Hell. To the never left enough or never the socialist enough, or the never progressive enough: the government that imposed This hell upon its people, was communist. The governments that repel these intrusions have constitutions THEY UPHOLD. SPEECH THEY PERMIT WITHOUT THE AUDACITY TO INDICATE THAT ONLY SPEECH THEY LIKE SHOULD BE PERMITTED.
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All those big FEMA camps built in the U.S. ready to go, just sitting empty - for now.
My dad was born in July 1926, Quebec Canada. So the gulag info is all about the time he was born, these sorts of histories are very important background to the world then and his subsequent beliefs, thanks for posting LL.