“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?...The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!”
-Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Years ago, my German grandma made me read many hundreds of pages of The Gulag Archipelago to better understand the horrors of communism. Solzhenitsyn is a hero...and he wrote more than one book.
I like black mugs and I cannot lie. The 11oz mugs cost $5.13 to make and $6.99 to ship, and the 15oz mugs cost $5.99 to make and $8.99 to ship, so my margin is ~$7. $5 of that goes to pay down my mortgage principal (not usury or taxes) and the rest pays for store expenses, designs, income taxes, etc. Of course, if you buy more than one of the same product type or supplier, I'll (probably) save money on shipping and my net revenue will be that much higher.
If you're poor or would rather not support me or want a different design or whatever, I want to make it easy for you to recreate this yourself. Go to printify.com and find the Black Mug (11oz/15oz) (fulfilled by District Photo) and use the 'Actor' font with this image:
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0663/4386/2447/files/Solzhenitsyn_transparent_compressed.png
| |
11oz |
15oz |
| Height, in |
3.78 |
4.69 |
| Diameter, in |
3.19 |
3.43 |
| Diameter (with handle), in |
4.72 |
5.12 |
