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​Aus der Geschichte lernen wir das wir aus der Geschichte Nichts lernen

What is this book about? "Norma" consists of eight disparate parts, united by a common plot frame: a boy in a school uniform reads a folder with the manuscript of "Norma" at Lubyanka, which has just been confiscated from a dissident along with other banned samizdat. The most famous part, with which the entire book is associated, is the first: three dozen scenes describing how Soviet citizens eat a bag of children's feces - a daily "norm". Together, all the parts of the book come together to form a conceptual mosaic about the fear and hatred of Soviet stagnation and the violence of collective language over individuality.
mises.org/mises-daily/soviet-foreign-policy-revisionist-perspective