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A comment on Solzhenitsyn’s Rosary (2016). Parent comment

Re:Solzhenitsyn’s Rosary (2016) by TimTheTinker on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @12:04PM (#26400822)
Solzhenitsyn is required reading today for Russion schoolchildren. That alone ought to speak to its importance and accuracy -- not of figures per se (unbeknownst to him, some of his sources were not accurate), but the reality of the horrors committed by the Soviets, which he experienced first-hand.

Have you read at least the first few chapters of The Gulag Archipelago?

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Re:Solzhenitsyn’s Rosary (2016) by WaxProlix on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @12:43AM (#26486631)
> Solzhenitsyn is required reading today for Russion schoolchildren

Russia is an authoritarian oligarchy and their school system presumably reflects this. I don't think this is a mark in favor of what you think it is.

> Have you read at least the first few chapters of The Gulag Archipelago?

As a teenager, yes, do you think I'm missing something crucial, specifically from the early bits?

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