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Help me debunk 'If the Soviet Union was so great, how come people wanted to leave? How come they had to build a wall to keep people in?' (hexbear.net)

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How debunk this?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Stalin near the end had gone through half-a-dozen strokes, and was taking medical advice from a veterinarian.

His suspicious nature went into full blown paranoia, and he pretty much lost it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

sources and when did this happen?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Read it in a book long ago.

Found an article with some of the keywords, but it is just the abstract. There are 10 sources for the paper though.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-1331.1999.tb00004.x

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

He increasingly withdrew from official functions and he muttered menacingly to his close associates that it was time for another purge.

Omg literally me

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