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[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

why are you linking me to obvious us propaganda?

Why should anybody believe you when you have to use an easily disproven lie the very first thing you said because there is no legitimate way to explain the horrors of what happened in the USSR? The author was a Soviet citizen who never set foot in the USA until after his entire 3 volume series was published. He had collected a lot of material because he was a 7 year victim of Stalin's Gulag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn

[Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn[a][b] ⓘ (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008)[6][7] was a Russian author and Soviet dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature".[8] His non-fiction work The Gulag Archipelago "amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state" and sold tens of millions of copies.[9]]

Khrushchev himself personally approved of Solzhenitsyn's previous book about Stalin's Gulag. Was the leader of the USSR also peddling "obvious US propaganda"? LMFAO.............

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-prophet-and-the-commissars-2008-08

lenin oversaw one of the biggest and quickest jumps in quality of life for people in history.

The author shows over and over in his book that the roots of Stalinism go right back to Lenin.

[Solzhenitsyn painstakingly laid the theoretical, legal, and practical origins of the Gulag system at Lenin's feet, not Stalin's.]

How is randomly arresting people in places like train stations and libraries in order to fulfill a police arrest quota from the top dictator a "jump in quality of life" LMFAO! Lenin and his party started the biggest enshitification of any country in history. Who the f*ck would ever want to live in a country where such as things as arrest quotas of random people exist? You would literally be risking your life every time you left your apartment.