{"id":3664,"date":"2013-02-12T17:48:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T23:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=3664"},"modified":"2013-02-12T17:48:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T23:48:05","slug":"mfdj021213","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=3664","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For February 12, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Non-Productive Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Soviet leader Joseph Stalin wanted all writers, musicians, and artists to create works of realism, though what that actually meant was anyone&#8217;s guess.\u00a0 The dictator&#8217;s purges during the\u00a0 1930&#8217;s-40&#8217;s not only silenced the country&#8217;s intelligentsia but anyone deemed unwilling to glorify Soviet achievements.\u00a0 The secret police (NKVD) tortured detainees until confessions for crimes, including &#8220;low productivity,&#8221; were admitted.\u00a0 Soviet author\u00a0Isaac Babel, tortured and shot in 1940 at the age of forty-five, was one of more than 600,000 exterminated for cultural offenses.\u00a0 Although records have been altered, Stalin is alleged to have killed as many as 1.2 million of his countrymen, and once stated, &#8220;Death is the solution to all problems.\u00a0 No man &#8211; no problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0061466417\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theasylumeclecti&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=0061466417\">Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hmmmm&#8230; I think that quote deserves its own t-shirt!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Non-Productive Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Soviet leader Joseph Stalin wanted all writers, musicians, and artists to create works of realism, though what that actually meant was anyone&#8217;s guess.\u00a0 The dictator&#8217;s purges during the\u00a0 1930&#8217;s-40&#8217;s not only silenced the country&#8217;s intelligentsia but anyone deemed unwilling to glorify Soviet achievements.\u00a0 The secret police (NKVD) tortured detainees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}