this world doesnt deserve us.
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The Purges of the late 1930s. They affected mostly the officer class and the party itself. A few generals got purged for being counter-revolutionary, either having monarchist or fascist sympathies, or for taking part in the Trotskyist plot aka the Zinoviev-Kamenev bloc. Purged didn’t always mean killed, more often than not it meant demoted, fired or expelled from the party.
The argument could be made that a few talented former Tsarist generals and officers were lost, but this happened several years before the war, there was some time to promote and train new talent, and it was preferable to having a politically unreliable, potentially seditious fifth column inside the army and the government during an existential war, that could induce mutinies or defections.
Also, saying that it was Stalin who did it is oversimplified and reductive, there was an entire leadership apparatus, plus the NKVD itself had a lot of power to act independently and sometimes presented false information to the leadership. There were excesses and abuses with politically motivated false accusations by various opportunists like NKVD chiefs Yagoda and Yezhov, themselves eventually tried and executed.
Multiple people have now recommended Gulag Archipelago to me. Is it a lib book?
It’s basically a book from the Fiction section, but liberals scribbled “Non-” in pencil
Because of a ‘source: trust me bro’ level or is it something else? I wouldn’t want to waste too much time on it if that’s the case tbh
It’s mostly “source: trust me bro,” the author makes extremely exaggerated claims and rebukes all evidence to the contrary by going “well, I was in a gulag once, therefore I am unable to lie”
North Korea defector moment
His own editors including his wife said that it was a work of fiction. Also the guy was a rabid anti-semite…
“Nicer”, Hitler literally create industrial killer camps tho is “people” and victims.
It doesn’t occur to them for hitler “his people” are “Aryan” and nothing else. They think they’re being clever by saying stalin murdered his own people; meanwhile the Nazis considered gays, jews, slavs, non-whites and others as nothing more than slaves. Somehow that is the same or even better than Stalin.
didn’t even go for Shalamov
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show’s how poorly read they are
Most sane YT comment section
Was it the Black book of communism or the archipelago which had the footnote “I saw it in a dream”
so fucking epic i would shit and piss muy pants
Fascism is roses and rainbows compared to communism. Because communism.
Actually roses and rainbows were illegal under communism 😔. My grandparents were lucky to escape it. They lost most of their Faberge eggs.
it was also illegal to laugh and the only consented name was vladimir-al kim zedong.
is when the guberment
If you swap “Joe” and “Mama” with “Ligma” and “Balls” respectively, it still very much applies.
