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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
No you don't understand, Solzhenitsyn is a totally legitimate source for information on the USSR!
According to Congress, Solzhenitsyn and Zenz are is infallible as Jesus. They granted the Victims of Communism foundation control over this required curriculum.
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.
Not just the archives either. In the 80s there were people who believed that millions of political prisoners would be released by Gorbachev which obviously never happened because they didn't exist. It's kinda like people believing that there are still Vietnam War POWs after all this time.
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?
We had to read the Gulag Archipelago in class in high school. Don't remember if it was in English or in World History.
Haha 66 million wtf. What an absolutely preposterous number. Not even remotely feasible to kill that many, even if big bad Stalin wanted to.