I'd disagree, but suspect there's crossover in our positions.
I'd query the return to which tradition, and which catholic order given the state of the church, but I'm unopposed to the direction.
Instead of arguing, we could swap some sources?
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You can go further.
The soviets had a two tier economy, the official economy on paper and the actual economy run by the criminal classes.
The Gulags were a microcosm of this, the NKVD used the "Bitches" and "Thieves Council" to run the camps.
The fellow spent years hacking away at a church fence while assuming an atheist utopia was on the other side, only to discover a queer horde waiting for him.