Gulag double fish-head soup friendship

As told 4

“In gulag every Sunday you get a little bit better soup, two rotten heads of a fish or something like that. I will make a call from Moscow you will get double portion of this soup every Sunday.”
1:11:06 Yanis Varoufakis & Slavoj Zizek | Festival INDIGO 20212021-10-21 · 2:05:00

“In Gulag you get on Sunday that disgusting borscht... And I will phone them, you will get two bowls of soup every Sunday.”
17:51 Slavoj Žižek "To be or not to be”2015-11-21 · 38:01

“In Gulag you get on Sunday that disgusting borscht, cabbage soup with one rotten fish in it. And I will phone them, you will get two bowls of soup every Sunday.”
19:07 The Birth of Comedy out of the Spirit of Despair2015-11-21 · 1:12:21

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, 2 jobsuses

cynical reason ×1 common decency ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Lina Wertmüller2 Jela Krečič1 Herbert Marshall1 Jared Kushner1 Harold Wilson1 Patrice Lumumba1 Costa-Gavras1 Jens Weidmann1

alongside works

Design for Living2 The Odd One In2 Mansfield Park2 Shame1 The Graduate1 Financial Times commentary on Boris Johnson nationalizing railways1 Adults in the Room1 The Name of the Rose2

Told together with

40% Pasqualino Settebellezze: survival through seducing the kapo 2 shared talks 40% Antigone as her own PR agent (Hegel's comical moment) 2 shared talks 25% Yugoslav Bureaucracy Cynicism 2 shared talks 18% Srebrenica 'with or without bones' land joke 2 shared talks 4% coffee without cream / coffee without milk 2 shared talks

Every retelling 4

1:11:06 Yanis Varoufakis & Slavoj Zizek | Festival INDIGO 20212021-10-21 · 2:05:00

Žižek jokes that his version of friendship with those who come to power is: 'If you're in the gulag I'll make a call from Moscow and you'll get a double portion of rotten fish-head soup every Sunday.', illustrating Žižek's self-irony,friendship and power,Soviet jokes

17:51 Slavoj Žižek "To be or not to be”2015-11-21 · 38:01

Žižek tells a friend: 'you'll be in Gulag, I'll be in Moscow at the Central Committee, but I'll phone them and you'll get TWO bowls of borscht on Sunday. Will you not be glad?', illustrating cynical ideology

19:07 The Birth of Comedy out of the Spirit of Despair2015-11-21 · 1:12:21

Žižek jokes that a true friend in the Gulag is one who, being in the Central Committee in Moscow, phones to arrange that you get two bowls of the disgusting cabbage soup on Sundays instead of one., illustrating comedy and power,dark humor under totalitarianism,friendship as ideology

53:17 Oxford Political Review2020-11-05 · 56:19

Žižek closes the interview by pretending to threaten his interlocutor with the Gulag, then offering the 'privilege' of two portions of rotten fish-head soup on Sundays as a sign of personal friendship, a self-deflating mock-Stalinist joke., illustrating Stalinist parody,left self-irony,common decency