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Kathleen McCook's avatar

sentenced in 1849. Also in the --Idiot--he has Prince Mýshkin describe the moments before an execution. Dostoevsky had his head covered before the execution was stopped and he was sent to Siberia.

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elm's avatar

Mock executions (that the condemned believe to be real) are a thing.

The communists didn't really need to change a thing after the Civil War, did they?

elm

left extremism as a force for reactionary radicalism

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Kathleen McCook's avatar

no, they had a playbook.

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Bill Heath's avatar

Le plus ca change . . .

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