tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13208607.post105454736761361303..comments2023-10-06T01:45:50.515-07:00Comments on Above The Borderline: How Beautiful Could The World Be?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13208607.post-55365992282912296142008-12-12T13:05:00.000-08:002008-12-12T13:05:00.000-08:00I don't have any good quotes from the two books yo...I don't have any good quotes from the two books you mentioned. It's been over 35 years since I read "A Day In The LIfe..." Perhaps I will read it again and find some more interesting quotes.<BR/><BR/>Personally, I have my doubts that life in Hilter's or Stalin's concentration camps were much to be desired. They both sound like the South's Andersonville from the Civil War era. Likewise, the Japanese camps didn't sound like fun.<BR/><BR/>I actually think Frankl's focus was less on political ideology and more on the individual's reason for survival. <BR/><BR/>Roadkill, you seem preoccupied with pointing out the Communists in the USSR were much better exterminators than the NAZIs. Do you feel I've ignored the horror's of the Communists? I certainly don't mean to do that. I don't mean to lead readers on that they might be much happier living under communists rule than living under Hitler's vison. Although, I'm sure there where many happy Germans living under Hilter and many happy Communists living under Stalin. Those would be the ones with access to the booze and drugs to numb their conscience and dull their internal pain from committing man's inhumanity to man.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13208607.post-73524989674529878762008-12-11T18:48:00.000-08:002008-12-11T18:48:00.000-08:00Sunny, Got any good quotes from "One Day in the L...Sunny,<BR/><BR/> Got any good quotes from "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" or "The Gulag Archipelago?" <BR/><BR/> Hitler learned about how to run concentration camps from vists to the Soviet Union. Did he miss the lesson on stamping out all hope and beauty in the lives of the prisoners? The Man of Steel had no tolerance for such things. <BR/><BR/>Creating the workers paradise was too important to waste time, mercy or justice on enemies of the state.<BR/><BR/> I don't recall Solzhenitsyn expressing any hopeful sentiments at all in his memoirs of life in the Soviet camps. <BR/><BR/> Perhaps life was marginally better under the Nazi's than under the Communists? Hard to say.<BR/><BR/> The fact is, history records that tens of millions fewer were killed by fascist regimes than by Communist governments.<BR/><BR/> But of course, its so much safer and politically correct to demonize right wing fascism than left wing communism, because the motives of the more prolific communist murderers were purer.Roadkillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09707416011632959777noreply@blogger.com