yes-----fake. It became a RELIGION ---with
"clergymen" who cashed in
And now for a look at what every communist and fellow traveler wanted for America....
Let's take, as an example, Naftly Frenkel, the man who made Stalin's gulags the "success" that they were.
And, of course, I mean "success," in the sense that that it destroyed millions...and gave rise to Hitler's concentration camps.
1. "Naftaly Aronovich Frenkel...was a
Jewish Russian businessman and member of the
Soviet secret police.
Frenkel is best known for his role in the organisation of work in the Gulag, starting from the
forced labor camp of the
Solovetsky Islands, which is recognised as one of the earliest sites of the Gulag.
He rose rapidly from prisoner to staff member on the strength of
his proposal to the camp administration that they link inmates' food rations to their rate of production, the proposal known as nourishment scale (шкала питания).
The story goes that when he arrived at the camp [as a prisoner!] he found shocking disorganisation and waste of resources (both human and material): he promptly wrote a precise description of what exactly was wrong with every one of the camp's industries (including forestry, farming and brick-making).
[6]
He placed the letter in the prisoners' 'complaints box' whence it was sent, as a curiosity, to
Genrikh Yagoda the secret police bureaucrat who eventually became leader of the
Cheka; it is said that
Yagoda immediately demanded to meet with the letter's author.
[6]Frenkel himself claimed that he was
whisked off to Moscow to discuss his ideas with Joseph Stalin and
Lazar Kaganovich, one of Stalin's henchmen.....records show that Frenkel met Stalin in the 1930s and was protected by Stalin during the
Partypurge years;..."
Naftaly Frenkel - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
a. "
Frenkel's special talent for improving inmate work efficiency was quickly noticed by the camp officials there, and it was not long before he was ordered to explain his ideas and methods to
Stalin personally. His main proposal was to
link a prisoner's food ration, especially hot food, to his production, essentially substituting hunger for the knout as the main work incentive.
Frenkel had also observed that a prisoner's most productive work is usually done in the first three months of his captivity, after which he or she was in so debilitated a state that
the output of the inmate population could be kept high only by removing (killing off) the exhausted prisoners and replacing them with fresh inmates. "
The Gulag Communism s Penal Colonies Revisited
Seems that if there are benefits available, there are always men who will serve big government rather than their sisters and brothers.
Is that what we want America's motto to be?
2.
Naftaly Frenkel rose in importance under Stalin by instituting inhuman rules that made the gulag more.....'efficient'....and more deadly.
But advanced the aims of the Communists.
"During the early 1930s every non-apparatchik in the USSR was hungry, and the peasants were starving in their millions. The zeks [prisoners] of the gulag, from 1918 to 1956, were always somewhere in between.
The mature gulag ran on food and the deprivation of food. Illuminatingly, the history of Communism keeps bringing us back to this: the scarcity or absence of food.
[In] his natural indifference to all human suffering Frenkel was an excellent Bolshevik. It was he who advised Stalin to run the gulag on the steady deprivation of food.
Again they used norms and quotas:
for the full norm: 700 grams of bread, plus soup and buckwheat for those not attaining the norm: 400 grams of bread, plus soup
The ‘full norm' was near-unachievable (sometimes more than 200 times higher than the Tsarist equivalent). A socialist-realist superman might manage it, for a time. But you were not meant to manage it. As the zek increasingly fell further behind the norm, he weakened further too, and his ration would soon be demoted to ‘punitive' (300 grams).
As for the rations, [historian Robert] Conquest cites those of the Japanese POW camps on the River Kwai: ‘There, prisoners got a daily ration norm of 700 grams of rice, 600 of vegetables, 100 of meat, 20 of sugar, 20 of salt, and 5 of oil…';
all these items were, of course, great rarities and delicacies in the archipelago. Solzhenitsyn describes a seven-ounce loaf (218 grams): ‘sticky as clay, a piece little bigger than a matchbox…'"
Martin Amis, "Koba The Dread."
Under socialism, the hero is the one who 'improves' the way of the collective, no matter the cost in human lives....or who attack the American Jeremiahs, , like Joseph McCarthy.......
.......or who support the Iran Nuclear Treaty.
