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Visiting libs: not so friendly reminder that double genocide theory is nazi propaganda according to Jewish holocaust scholars (hexbear.net)

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I've seen too much of this. No, the nazis and the Soviets were not equivalent.

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[-] [email protected] 57 points 2 years ago

The way I've heard that book described is not fact, but urban legends, or fairy tales, from the gulags that people have related. Like, it isn't accurate factually, but it encompasses the feelings of a few people (including the author) had about being there.

[-] [email protected] 57 points 2 years ago

the subtitle is unironically An Experiment in Literary Investigation

"Surely this must be a serious scholastic work!"
-- arbitrary liberal, probably

[-] [email protected] 57 points 2 years ago

His ex wife called it "folklore"

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/06/archives/solzhenitsyns-exwife-says-gulag-is-folklore.html

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

Yes this is the word I couldn't think of.

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