How confident are we that this is actually true? When I’ve heard about this claim in the past, the actual evidence mentioned looked sort of thin to me when you broke things down.
it kind of worked for the soviet dissidents for a while! the book talks about the “chain reaction”—every time someone got arrested and put through a sham trial, someone would secretly transcribe the court proceedings which showed how farcical it was, publish the transcript as samizdat or sending it abroad to be broadcast by radio back into the soviet union (tamizdat), which would outrage people who would go protest, who would get arrested for protesting, completing the cycle. this cycle only ended after the 1968 red square protest, when people felt it was too hopeless to continue.
hm. it worked for the early Christians...
How confident are we that this is actually true? When I’ve heard about this claim in the past, the actual evidence mentioned looked sort of thin to me when you broke things down.
it kind of worked for the soviet dissidents for a while! the book talks about the “chain reaction”—every time someone got arrested and put through a sham trial, someone would secretly transcribe the court proceedings which showed how farcical it was, publish the transcript as samizdat or sending it abroad to be broadcast by radio back into the soviet union (tamizdat), which would outrage people who would go protest, who would get arrested for protesting, completing the cycle. this cycle only ended after the 1968 red square protest, when people felt it was too hopeless to continue.