Gulag birthday telegram to Stalin

As told 16

“you cannot imagine nazis collecting all the jews in auschwitz to send a telegram to hitler”
1:02:56 Stalin: Paradox of Power2015-03-31 · 1:36:09

“You cannot even imagine such a ritual in Nazism, to on Hitler's birthday gather all the inmates of Auschwitz and make them sign a congratulation message.”
1:54 Poetry in the Round2018-10-24 · 1:44:48

“in a gulag camp, all inmates were brought together and they all had to sign a telegram to stalin wishing him all the best.”
38:04 Samuel Beckett’s Art of Abstraction2018-11-08 · 1:16:26

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses

Enlightenment inheritance of Stalinism ×5 show trials ×4 prohibition of the prohibition ×2

Its cast and sources

populated by

Anne Applebaum11 Nikolai Bukharin9 Rudolf Slánský4 Marcel Proust3 Boris Buden2 Montesquieu2 László Rajk2 Guillermo del Toro2

alongside works

Gulag5 Gulag: A History5 In Search of Lost Time3 Magnolia2 Dialektik der Aufklärung2 Malone Dies2 Catastrophe2 Reds2

Told together with

41% Stalin joins the applause 11 shared talks 18% Postmodern permissive father and grandmother visit 5 shared talks 15% Proust's grandmother on the telephone 3 shared talks 14% Yugoslav student newspaper treats fake elections as real 3 shared talks 11% Dinner invitation: paying the bill ritual 3 shared talks 11% Argentina pays off IMF debt, IMF panics 2 shared talks 11% Tom Cruise in Magnolia 2 shared talks 11% biodegradable bullets with seeds 2 shared talks 11% Beckett's Catastrophe 2 shared talks 10% Slumdog Millionaire torture scene 2 shared talks 10% Mao's flatulence metaphor at Lushan conference 2 shared talks 9% Oil as evidence of nature's catastrophism 2 shared talks

Every retelling 18

1:02:56 Stalin: Paradox of Power2015-03-31 · 1:36:09

Žižek cites Anne Applebaum's Gulag book: once a year on Stalin's birthday, all prisoners collectively signed a birthday telegram to Stalin, a practice unimaginable in the Nazi universe, illustrating the perverted Enlightenment logic of Stalinism., illustrating perverted remainder of Enlightenment,difference between Stalinism and Nazism

1:54 Poetry in the Round2018-10-24 · 1:44:48

Every year on Stalin's birthday, Gulag inmates were required to sign congratulatory telegrams to him, a ritual impossible to imagine in Nazism because Nazi guilt was about being, not acting., illustrating Stalinism vs. fascism,show trials,guilt and being

38:04 Samuel Beckett’s Art of Abstraction2018-11-08 · 1:16:26

Even in the worst Gulag years, inmates were assembled annually to sign a collective telegram wishing Stalin a happy birthday, impossible under Nazism because Stalinist ideology still required universal participation in reason, even from its victims., illustrating Stalinism vs. fascism,Enlightenment universalism

1:00:56 Žižek and Friends - Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and the Spaces Between (Nov. 2017)2017-11-14 · 1:03:09

Every year on Stalin's birthday, Gulag inmates were required to sign a telegram wishing him well. Žižek contrasts this with the unthinkability of Nazi guards collecting Jews in Auschwitz to sign birthday greetings for Hitler, illustrating that the two systems operated through entirely different discursive structures., illustrating figure of voice vs. figure of writing,authentic tragedy (vs. fascism)

1:19:07 Re-Reading the Revolution2017-10-06 · 2:06:46

Anne Applebaum's Gulag documents that every year on Stalin's birthday, all camp inmates were gathered to collectively sign a congratulatory telegram to Stalin, a performance of loyalty impossible to imagine in the Nazi system (collecting Auschwitz prisoners to telegram Hitler)., illustrating university discourse,Stalinism and the Enlightenment,Stalinism vs. Nazism

1:25:32 Reality as Constricted Ideology2017-05-17 · 1:49:55

Anne Applebaum's Gulag records that on Stalin's birthday, camp inmates were assembled and compelled to vote by acclamation to endorse a long congratulatory telegram. This compulsory performance of loyalty was utterly alien to Nazi practice., illustrating Stalinism and the function of appearance,ideology of consent,difference between Stalinism and fascism