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Note that Catherine gets a late soviet mention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_IObE7MIqs#t=143s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_IObE7MIqs#t=143s ...and th
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Note that Catherine gets a late soviet mention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_IObE7MIqs#t=143s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_IObE7MIqs#t=143s
...and that Goldstein basically writes about the meritocracy* of the Inner Party, as set out in the non-fictional The Managerial Revolution (1941).
* Smith is in the outer party precisely because he did poorly on his A-levels.
- gsf_emergency 2y agoFirst American-Russians got left high & dry.. and meretocrat A2T (TiGR! Revisit the trial of his assassins) ? https://sine-or.livejournal.com/60717.html https://sine-or.livejournal.com/60717.html
- 082349872349872 2y agoTo be fair, NVR may have sung the lines and sat in the Duma, but I think (я думаю?) the songwriter (IIM?) was probably more of a thinker than a sitter and knew exactly what they were doing. Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUCs_c643qU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUCs_c643qU (not sure if the russian fleet really kept the royal navy away during the US Civil War; my impression had been that the Confederacy had waited too long to revolt, and the second-cheapest supplier of cotton [egypt?] for british mills was not much more expensive than the CSA would've been in any case)