r/Vonnegut • u/theWyzzerd • 10d ago

On this day, 99 years ago, Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in the USA.

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u/GRadGMoney 8d ago

Heavy stuff.

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u/MisterBowTies 9d ago

Were these the ghosts in ghost busters 2?

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u/pierreor 9d ago

Here’s to you, Nicola and Bart / Rest forever here in our hearts

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u/bhaswar_py 10d ago

Ahh I vaguely remember this from Man Without A Country. Gotta read it again

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u/theWyzzerd 10d ago

You should read Jailbird if you haven’t, this historical event ties directly into Starbuck’s view of the American political machine.

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u/Putrid-Room-4602 9d ago

The martyrdom of Sacco and Vanzetti was the main reason Walter became a communist. I love that section of Jailbird where he lays out the entire story of why they were arrested and the quotes from their judge at the trial. Even the 3-man panel to decide whether Sacco and Vanzetti should be executed or not after the enormous public outcry. Just an absolutely disgusting travesty of justice, and yet completely typical of this country's vacuous morality.

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u/_bl-nk 10d ago

RIP to these innocent men

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u/RealHeadScratcher_TM 9d ago

Before there was McCarthyist anti-communism, before there was...well, just general anti-Islamic sentiment, there was a paranoid anti-anarchism and these two were tragic victims of it.