Sudden Stalin: Trump would like it (I guess)

Printed source in Russian: Сталин И.В. Об основах ленинизма / Вопросы ленинизма: изд. 11-е. — М.: Государственное издание политической литературы, 1952. — 652 с. — С. 1-80. — Отрывок (с. 78-80).

Stalin J.V. Foundations of Leninism / Works. Volume 6, pages 71-196. — Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow: 1953. — Excerpt.

The full dark side story you can find here (if you dare): https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/ch09.htm

IX. Style in work

I am not referring to literary style. What I have in mind is style in work, that specific and peculiar feature in the practice of Leninism which creates the special type of Leninist worker. Leninism is a school of theory and practice which trains a special type of Party and state worker, creates a special Leninist style in work.

What are the characteristic features of this style? What are its peculiarities?

It has two specific features :

a) Russian revolutionary sweep and

b) American efficiency.

Movie: Ex Machina (2015) — Fiction as a mirror — or — Fear of the future

Ex Machina (2015)

The way the society sees its own future (typical view) says much about the society. Western tradition depicts own and our joint future almost exceptionally in dark shades («I’ve seen the future, brother. It is murder»). A text — is a material for psychoanalysis, a fiction as a form of art — especially.

East Germans lost much in 1989

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/08/1989-berlin-wall

Bruni de la Motte
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 8 November 2009 11.00 GMT

East Germans lost much in 1989
For many in the GDR, the fall of the Berlin Wall and unification meant the loss of jobs, homes, security and equality