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"Probably no State in the world has fewer dangerous enemies within its borders than the Soviet State, after these ten years of indefatigable “ anticipation ” conducted with every imaginable terror and violence" - written at the start of Great Purge.

Very great analysis of soviet agriculture of that period.
Soviet government had to pay for its industrialisation but did not want to provide better conditions. The productivity is very low, but it is blamed on enemies and sabotage.
This will end with the largest crime in Soviet history, but it was visible in 1928 the direction to increase amount of grain collected won't end well.

Текст без посилань, читати приємно, але перевірити чи правда це - неможливо.

Іноді аж зуби зводить від радянських вставок - цитати Леніна, Пушкіна. Часто відчуваєш себе поруч, окрім трохи картонних деяких персонажів.

Болить. Бо все таке життєве

"The series of unfortunate events" is a great set of stories about adulthood for children. It has fun and sad parts, some books are more interesting than others.
It has lots of meta. But not too deep meta, rather something that you can see and read. Everyone has their motives to do things(like in real life) , even though sometimes they are absurd(like in real life).
Definitely worth reading for kids and adults.

I have used Batman card to finish the challenge.

Three hours - 150 pages. Oh-oh.

6 books, 4 days

Trolling from Middle ages.

The book goes pretty well with the "Out of the Crisis", like a nice novelization/history of improving quality.

The author often tries to compare with Japan and suggests what people can learn from there. But he completely ignores differences in the culture.

It is quite nice to compare this book and "Out of the crisis" that I read in parallel.

There is a definite ignorance of difference in culture.

How to read English literature Like an American professor

Almost 200 years later politicians are the same.

Jetzt ist man von dem Rechten allzu weit,
Ich lobe mir die guten Alten;
Denn freilich, da wir alles galten,
Da war die rechte goldne Zeit.

Starting too many books

I stopped and decided to reread it.

The tasks take much more time than reading

The hardest part is finishing tasks after chapters.

creative people who know the double enjoyment of watching what you’re doing while you’re doing it and laughing at yourself while you watch.

"It’s hard to see the climate when you’re experiencing the weather."

Let's go crazy for next year challenge!

I finished most of my books in 2017 when I haven't checked news on the Internet. I'll try to check the news only one hour per day and ....

I feel desire to start as many as possible books before New Year to fool reading challenge metrics

As usual, Weinberg shows examples and gives exercises.

"Буде весело" написав автор. Може не весело, але цікавоточно.