How very Sun Tzu.

He was writing about educational system.

@Firefly Yes I read Dzerzhinsky.

@Deleted User He is very well known for the use of a hard discipline in education. He made scientists and artists out of homeless kids who could not read.

That's beautiful.

Why Che facepalms?

I thought it looked like he was crying?

Wrong chat

@Hezbolshevik here is a better place anyway.

@Deleted User What did you read from Dzerzhinski?

@Firefly What you linked me. http://spartacus-educational.com/RUSDzerzhinsky.htm

I should read full biography. https://archive.org/stream/FelixDzerzhinskyABiography/FD_djvu.txt

@Deleted User that link sounds like the script to a comedy

It is from Progress Publishers so it must be good.

@Deleted User https://www.amazon.com/Communist-Morality-Felix-Dzerzhinsky/dp/1467902950

Was looking for collection of his works in English and didn't find

He has two tomes

Very easy if you know Russian http://fdzerzhinsky.narod.ru/1biblioteka.htm

21 percent of common russian literature i can understand, I mean words in it

I wish I could have such a simplistic view of the world (in response to the last pic @Firefly posted)

Definetly not good enough

@Hezbolshevik I can read Serb and Bulgarian 50-60%

But that is not enough

Slavic languages typically are very close

I know plently of cognates with serbian because i listen to so much yugoslav war music

@Firefly What is the other book called, Prison Diaries?

@Deleted User He went thought Russian prison system as most Russian communists did. Sort of no-cuckold training.

He been in prison so much time that he wrote things in there. Not as important as his works on education.

Of the many towering and terrifying figures of that remarkable era of the Soviet Revolution, the bent, gaunt and soft-spoken form of Felix Dzershinsky may be overlooked amongst the stern and charismatic Lenins, or the vicious Stalins. This would be a mistake. Armed with a will that earned him the nickname 'Iron Felix', and an unshakeable commitment to the cause that impressed, and often unnerved, all who met him, Felix was the revolutions shining Knight, the ideal to which all others should climb. He was also put in charge of the nascent Soviet Secret Police (the CHEKA, later the KGB), and under his command would instigate a reign of terror and intimidation, the aftershocks of which have yet to subside.
These diaries no doubt suffered under the hands of Soviet censor, but even a fascinating picture of the man emerges. The brutal prisons of the Czar in which he toiled for nearly eleven years were clearly instrumental in transforming the idealistic if rabidly dogmatic young man into something purer, harder and ultimately more terrible. His long, flowering letters to his wife, his sister and his friends eventually become terse, bitter correspondences repeating again and again that he can add nothing, nothing has happened, nothing has changed. His psychology was a mix of youthful idealism tempered and focused by adult traumas into a merciless sword for the cause, quite typical of that generation of revolutionaries.
He was a powerful ally, but Heaven help you if you fell into his hands.
A fascinating glimpse into this important and, in the West, critical overlooked figure of Eastern European history.'

>I thought it looked like he was crying?

Could be both.

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@JeffJEFFGEOFF Now I found you, Jeff.

hi

@Mabasei welcome to the broader leftiest community.

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