I think his ex wife also said that it's just embellished stories if not completely made up. Let me see if i can find it
Edit:
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/06/archives/solzhenitsyns-exwife-says-gulag-is-folklore.html
She said its "folklore" and its significance "overstated"
Not gonna lie. I thought he was dead for like 20 years already.
RIP to a legend
Lmao as if german schools teach anything besides the nazi period in germany (in my experience at least). Other countries are only mentioned when they were invaded by germany and not beyond that tbh
Mhh interesting, thank you! Tbh i thought it wouldn't be so easy for them to just kidnap them, but maybe they are just more competent than i thought and i don't even buy into the "US/CIA got lazy and believe their own propaganda of how great they are" tale that seems to be going around.
I think you are right that only time will tell for now.
They think that Maduro is one of the uber men who thinks just like they do and if they bully him he'll crack like they all would. They see a strong man and think if they take him out everything around him will devolve into a feeding frenzy because that is what they would do.
You think so? I feel like that's just pushing the idea that the USA and CIA are stupid and one dimensional. I simply don't think that all those couped and invaded countries, all those countries that are getting pumped full of pro-US propaganda because of the far reaching tentacles of the USA, are getting done in by some idiots that only know how to flex and throw money around.
Maybe i am just pessimistic?
Can anyone enlighten me on how much impact it has to kidnap the leader of a country? Because the rest of the government, including the VP, is still up and running, right?
Or does the kidnapping act as proof of much of the government/military already being compromised and bought up by the US?
"Home of Covid-19"? Did i miss some credible evidence of the virus being an american bioweapon?
Any and all info of covid went completely past me the past years so it wouldn't surprise me if i missed some big news
Well, it doesn't really happen. There are basically no cases of it happening and even in the original incident there was no "syndrome" or complex mental trauma that made the captives sympathise with their captors.
They just had sympathy for them because they (the captors and hostages) were not terrible people apparently.
Same thing is likely happening here. These people clearly look healthy and well fed so no torture or neglect took place and they finally had the "opportunity" to see the palestinians as humans instead of targets
As far as i know, Stockholm syndrome is not even an actual thing. I think these israelis just figured out that they are on the wrong side of history and what is going to likely happen to their captors by Israel
I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "I used to watch Hasan and then started reading lenin and now here I am". I have heard that with the deprogram, through the subreddit which was highly commie and encouraged people to look beyond.
I, on the otherhand, have heard it quite often. What i heard even more often is that Hasan is what led them towards second thought/deprogram in general, other left creators and then into actual theory.
So I can't agree that he forms a pipeline, and telling his audience to read lenin does not make one if they are not going to read lenin but keep watching him instead. Socdems are not communist and have never been.
No one forms a pipeline alone. The pipeline is obviously not implied to be Hasan -> The State and Revolution as you seem to think. Hasan is the very first step towards radicalisation for many people including me and after him there were other content creators (german commies on youtube) and now i am getting into proper theory.
He is the streamer for libs that don't even know what the word imperialism means. He is the streamer for the people that would get scared away if he were any more clear about his opinions.
I also think he gets a lot of leeway because he's "on the left" that would not be afforded if he wasn't so popular.
I don't think people give him any leeway at all tbh. Every misstep or perceived misstep gets immediately put under a microscope by the left and then he gets called a socdem by some ultra-maoist or something.
Hasan doesn't punch left, clearly leaves the door open and even encourages for people to go further down the pipeline.
https://hexbear.net/post/6309545
I don't think this document proofs anything. There are more detailed and "credible" CIA documents that falsely claim him to be a dictator.
I also think this is playing into the narrative of the CIA being some kind of omniscient org that has their eyes everywhere and you can't hide from it. AFAIK the CIA had a hard time piercing the veil and gather intelligence of the USSR and its inner workings.
In fact, i think they fell for their own propaganda like the old joke about a KGB and a CIA agent meeting.
"I have to admit, I'm always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up," the CIA agent says.
"Thank you," the KGB says. "We do our best but truly, it's nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them."
The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. "Thank you friend, but you must be confused... There's no propaganda in America."
It is baffling not gonna lie. Craziest example i can think of is the youtube channel "socialism4all" who makes audiobooks of socialist works and even adds very helpful comments here and there about context and clearing up terminology and even he denies china being socialist. Like, mf that is your entire damn job! How the fuck did you read through all of that, add comments, make a playlist for beginners out of it and then not realise that china is one of the most successful examples of what you read and recommend?!
And then, in his added notes, he goes on to make fun of anarchists, social democrats and, ironically enough, left coms.
Really sullied his great work with those takes imo