Vejas Liulevicius

What's so horrifying is the way in which a whole society stood paralyzed in this process and how neighbors would be taken away in the middle of the night and people would be wary of talking about it. Resistance...

at least in these urban centers, was entirely paralyzed by fear when, if one had somehow find a way to mobilize, somehow a way to resist the process, the results might have been different. There's an astonishing book. I mean, there are so many great books that have come out quite recently, even on these topics.

at least in these urban centers, was entirely paralyzed by fear when, if one had somehow find a way to mobilize, somehow a way to resist the process, the results might have been different. There's an astonishing book. I mean, there are so many great books that have come out quite recently, even on these topics.

at least in these urban centers, was entirely paralyzed by fear when, if one had somehow find a way to mobilize, somehow a way to resist the process, the results might have been different. There's an astonishing book. I mean, there are so many great books that have come out quite recently, even on these topics.

Orlando Figus has an amazing book called The Whisperers that traces several families' history In the Stalin period. And it's a testimony to how a whole society and some of its most intelligent people got winnowed again and again and again.

Orlando Figus has an amazing book called The Whisperers that traces several families' history In the Stalin period. And it's a testimony to how a whole society and some of its most intelligent people got winnowed again and again and again.

Orlando Figus has an amazing book called The Whisperers that traces several families' history In the Stalin period. And it's a testimony to how a whole society and some of its most intelligent people got winnowed again and again and again.

in that process of negative selection that we talked about, the lasting dislocation and scars that this left, and the way in which how people were not able to talk about these things in public, because that would put you next on the list, suspected of having less than total devotion to the state.

in that process of negative selection that we talked about, the lasting dislocation and scars that this left, and the way in which how people were not able to talk about these things in public, because that would put you next on the list, suspected of having less than total devotion to the state.

in that process of negative selection that we talked about, the lasting dislocation and scars that this left, and the way in which how people were not able to talk about these things in public, because that would put you next on the list, suspected of having less than total devotion to the state.

I think one of the things that also is so terrifying about the entire process is even total devotion wasn't enough. the process took on a life of its own. And I think that it might even have surprised Stalin in some ways, not enough to short-circuit the process, but the notion where people were invited to denounce neighbors

I think one of the things that also is so terrifying about the entire process is even total devotion wasn't enough. the process took on a life of its own. And I think that it might even have surprised Stalin in some ways, not enough to short-circuit the process, but the notion where people were invited to denounce neighbors

I think one of the things that also is so terrifying about the entire process is even total devotion wasn't enough. the process took on a life of its own. And I think that it might even have surprised Stalin in some ways, not enough to short-circuit the process, but the notion where people were invited to denounce neighbors

co-workers, maybe even family members, meant that ever larger groups of people would be brought into the orbit of the secret police, tortured in order to produce confessions. Those confessions then would lead to more lists of suspects of people who had to be investigated and either executed or sent to the gulags. The uncertainty that this produced Was enormous.

co-workers, maybe even family members, meant that ever larger groups of people would be brought into the orbit of the secret police, tortured in order to produce confessions. Those confessions then would lead to more lists of suspects of people who had to be investigated and either executed or sent to the gulags. The uncertainty that this produced Was enormous.

co-workers, maybe even family members, meant that ever larger groups of people would be brought into the orbit of the secret police, tortured in order to produce confessions. Those confessions then would lead to more lists of suspects of people who had to be investigated and either executed or sent to the gulags. The uncertainty that this produced Was enormous.

Even loyalty was not enough to save people. The stories, Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago is full of stories of dedicated communists who find themselves in the Gulag and are sure that some mistake has been made. And if only Comrade Stalin would hear about this terrible thing that has happened to them, surely it would be corrected.

Even loyalty was not enough to save people. The stories, Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago is full of stories of dedicated communists who find themselves in the Gulag and are sure that some mistake has been made. And if only Comrade Stalin would hear about this terrible thing that has happened to them, surely it would be corrected.

Even loyalty was not enough to save people. The stories, Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago is full of stories of dedicated communists who find themselves in the Gulag and are sure that some mistake has been made. And if only Comrade Stalin would hear about this terrible thing that has happened to them, surely it would be corrected.

And nothing like this would have everyone else, by contrast, accused of terrible crimes. There must be some truth behind that. So, you know, talk about ways of disaggregating a society, ways of breaking down bonds of trust. This left lasting traces on an entire society that endured to this very day.