News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Nobel archives reveal judges’ safety fears for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Parent comment

Re:Nobel archives reveal judges’ safety fears for Aleksandr ... by oytis on Saturday May 15, 2021 @06:40AM (#27164055)
> The Soviet Union of the 1970s was not the Soviet Union of the 30s.

Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov has been assassinated by KGB in 1978

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Nobel archives reveal judges’ safety fears for Aleksandr ... by andrepd on Saturday May 15, 2021 @03:37PM (#27168221)
American dissident Fred Hampton was assassinated by the CIA in 1969.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Nobel archives reveal judges’ safety fears for Aleksandr ... by oytis on Sunday May 16, 2021 @04:03AM (#27172027)
This

a) Is a great example of whataboutism

b) Totally irrelevant to the discussion

c) Is just not true

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Nobel archives reveal judges’ safety fears for Aleksandr ... by andrepd on Sunday May 16, 2021 @07:56AM (#27173048)
c) It really is.

a) b) Of course it's relevant. If you condemn one but not the other you are engaging in a double standard.

[ Parent | on HN ]