• 51dz31 [he/him]
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    6110 months ago

    In my country the school’s history book cites Solzhenitsyn’s estimate of 66 million dead in the gulag. We also had to learn by heart the theories of Arendt and Orwell.

    All the books that we were required to read said that “Revolution bad, reform good” or “The world is literally worse after the revolution”, it’s a joke

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        1910 months ago

        According to Congress, Solzhenitsyn and Zenz are is infallible as Jesus. They granted the Victims of Communism foundation control over this required curriculum.

    • RuthlessCriticism [comrade/them]
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      2810 months ago

      It is amazing how the soviet archives being opened and completely disproving all this propaganda did literally nothing to stop them. There was essentially not a single propagandist who actually cared about the truth, kind of incredible.

    • vegeta1 [he/him]
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      1910 months ago

      That the guy who said the German army could have liberated the Soviet Union from Communism but Hitler was stupid and did not use this weapon?