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Thread for socialist imbeciles: THE CONFESSION OF A

LOSER

Panait Istrati (Aug 10, 1884 – Apr 16, 1935) was a

Romanian writer who wrote in both French and Romanian.
Known as "The Maxim Gorki of Romania" he was a faithful
and dedicated socialist born in a working class family.

In his early years Istrati wrote for many socialist periodicals and was involved in
organizing labor strikes. He wrote more than 25 books and became friend with many
socialist thinkers and writers of the era like George Orwell, Romain Rolland, Andre
Gide and Ernest Hemingway

In 1927 after a 16 month trip to USSR (dubbed as The Worker's Paradise") Istrati
returned to Paris to wrote in his book "The Confession Of A Loser" about what the
experience and the atrocities he witnessed during his visit.

Despite being a socialist all his life, in his book he publicly renounced and
unequivocally condemned the Marxist totalitarian ideology after seeing how it works
in real life in the Soviet Union.

Thereafter, he suffered a crisis of conscience mainly due to being branded a "Fascist"

by his former communist friends, the most violent of which proved to be Henri
Barbusse. Istrati became ill and demoralised, was treated for tuberculosis in Nice,
then returned to Romania.

Enrest Hemingway wrote about his friend Panait Istrati:

"I met and loved Istrati. The story of his trip to the USSR, a very commented one at
the time, denotes the feeling of a deep frustration"

"We remember that after after visiting prisons and labor camps, when he asked a
Soviet dignitary's explanation, the character said to him: 'What do you want, we
cannot make an omelette without breaking some eggs'"

"To which Panait Istrati gave a biting response: 'I don't want to offend anyone, let
alone you Russians, but unfortunately although I have seen egg shells everywhere, I
saw no omelette'"

Romain Rolland was the only one who praised Istrati's letters to the GPU (Soviet
Secret Police), but even he nonetheless chose to stay clear of the controversy. Isolated
and and attacked by his former comrades, Istrati died at the Filaret Sanatorium in
Bucharest.

A free omelette on every dinner table is what Bernie, AOC, Ilhan and the rest of
socialist-democrats are promising Americans.
What history teaches us, is all those who believed in the socialist omelette got only
broken shells instead. 150 million broken shells in 40 countries.
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