Soviet America: Two Left Hemispheric Cultures of Dystopian Unreality

Plus an assortment of jokes from the old Soviet Union

Mar 20, 2025

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Saint Paul might’ve had a low tolerance for fools, but Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wouldn’t even let ‘em in the room. You can’t fault the guy. After the fools of the Soviet world worked him over like a piñata at a cartel wedding, he could sniff their rancid souls a mile off.

Solzhenitsyn saw the Soviet Union for what it was: America’s bloated, juiced-up alter…

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