I like the fact there’s a book titled “total propaganda”
Fucking, Gulag Archipelago, even Solzhenitsyn admitted most of what he wrote was entirely guesswork.
Guesswork I might add that was contradicted by evidence uncovered when soviet archives were unsealed during glasnost.
I don’t know why these people have to keep bringing up outdated Cold War theories when there’s so many things the USSR actually did that they can be critiqued on.
Solzhenitsyn’s Ex‐Wife Says ‘Gulag’ Is ‘Folklore’, 1974:
PARIS, Feb. 5 (Reuters)—Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn’s controversial new book on Soviet prison‐camps was described as “folklore” by his former wife in an interview published here today.
Natelya Reshetovskaya told the conservative newspaper Le Figaro that the book, “The Gulag Archipelago, 1918–1956,” was based on unreliable information:
She also told the newspaper’s Moscow correspondent that she was still living with Mr. Soizhenitsyn when he wrote the book and that she had typed part of it. They parted in 1970 and were subsequently divorced.
She said: “The subject of ‘Gulag Archipelago,’ as I felt at the moment when he was writing it, is not in fact the life of the country and not even the life of the camps but the folklore of the camps.”
In her 1974 memoir, ‘‘Sanya: My Life with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’’ (Bobbs-Merrill), she wrote that she was ‘‘perplexed’’ that the West had accepted ‘‘The Gulag Archipelago’’ as ‘‘the solemn, ultimate truth,’’ saying its significance had been ‘‘overestimated and wrongly appraised.’’
Pointing out that the book’s subtitle is ‘‘An Experiment in Literary Investigation,’’ she said that her husband did not regard the work as ‘‘historical research, or scientific research.’’ She contended that it was, rather, a collection of ‘‘camp folklore,’’ containing ‘‘raw material’’ which her husband was planning to use in his future productions.
best Internet comment award, 2008:
Solzhenitsyn was a Nazi propagandist in the 1940’s and affirmed that the war against Nazism was avoidable and a compromise with Hitler possible. That was why he was sent to a labor camp, for being a traitor.
His hatred for Jews that became public knowledge in recent years may explain his Nazi sympathies. Predictably, he was also a great fan of the Spanish fascist dictator Franco, whom he went to support when his regime began to totter. He appeared on Spanish TV to plead with Spaniards to remember the “freedom” they enjoyed under Franco while Soviet citizens were “enslaved” by socialism.
Solzhenitsyn was never a dissident but enjoyed the full support of Nikita Khruschev when he wrote the Gulag Archipelago, which Khrushchev used as propaganda material during his purge of Stalinists.
Nazi lover, Jew hater, monarchist: No wonder he became the darling of the West.
Part of it is just the accumulation of priors. So much easier to say the trigger words that cause Americans to :frothingfash: than to discuss the more complex and nuanced geopolitical maneuvers or economic planning mistakes. When speaking to a population that believes Everything the Soviets Did Was Evil and Command Economies Don’t Work, none of that mean anything.
i’m joining stalin’s war, on the side of stalin
Soak it with piss
As a representative of and advocate for leftist bookstores, check your local bookstores’ history and philosophy sections. If they are filled with books like this in the former and Joel Osteen and Peterson in the latter, wage war and soak the entire shelf in your piss. Let the gold flow.
Fun fact: CPUSA used to own bookstores across the country during the Gus Hall years.
They and many other brick and mortar assets the old party had were liquidated by the social fascists that make up the party leadership from Sam Webb to today.
Look we can move everything online, it’s totally a good system, it’s not as if we could use them for other things rather than just have to rent all our spaces.
Think about it like this. If the feds can remove something like tik tok because they think teens talking about how liking certain gems means you have an alien soul from aquarius or some shit, just imagine how easily all the collected works on marxists.org can go poof.
There’s a good reason to have physical copies in the digital age more than ever
My city had one of those, albeit it was shut down and raided before Hall was in charge. I think it was in Dennis’ time
The race to save the romanovs lol
Tell me why they needed to be saved
