tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297306090706424134.post652071330545275957..comments2023-08-15T02:21:46.775-07:00Comments on Things and Also Stuff...: The Lives of OthersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297306090706424134.post-74463387257265435412011-01-11T07:06:53.304-08:002011-01-11T07:06:53.304-08:00Actually, the stasi (and other secret state police...Actually, the stasi (and other secret state police in the former USSR/Communist countries), of course tried to stop creativity that was viewed as counter to the States, and thus the peoples interest. <br /><br />However, even in the most extreme case's (being sent to the Gulag etc) there was a way that many of the artists and writers could continue creating, and continue to be read (except in communist countries). That method was the Samizdat Manuscript.<br /><br />Samizdat manuscripts, were sometimes illegally printed and distributed in their countries of origin, but mostly were manuscripts that were smuggled out of the country of origin and printed in the west by publishing companies that were hungry for texts from "beyond the Iron Curtain".<br /><br />These printings would get to a potentially much wider audience than they could have achieved within the communist state structures, of course, all profits went to the companies that printed the work, and none to the artist.<br /><br />Even before the internet, totalitarian societies were having trouble keeping their free thinkers in line.<br /><br />A great work to read on the subject is "Ten years after Ivan Denisovich" by Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev.<br /><br />You can get it here: http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Years-After-Ivan-Denisovich/dp/0140039961<br /><br />Peace and Hope<br /><br />FatherCrowAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5297306090706424134.post-16315264591568161642010-12-31T13:46:01.838-08:002010-12-31T13:46:01.838-08:00New years is like a set of parenthesis that suspen...New years is like a set of parenthesis that suspends everything and makes everybody look small between them, now as much as I could be your germinating darling buds of may after an incredibly amount of time in some Svalbard Global Seed Vault 'listening' in on your post here...tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...nothings changed everythings to play for...take care pAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com