Re:H. G. Wells interviewing J. V. Stalin (1934)
by mopsi on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:55PM
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That was the reality of daily life in the USSR in 1970s, not spy fiction. To anyone from the USSR, the first instinct is to check the date of that quote (pre- or post-1991?) and the rest needs no comments. You made a faux pas that revealed how little you are aware of historic context. The more you deny it, the deeper hole you dig yourself into.
As to the crimes themselves, they've been meticulously documented by human rights organizations like Memorial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_(society)
Re:H. G. Wells interviewing J. V. Stalin (1934)
by dang on Thursday April 06, 2023 @05:14PM
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Please don't cross into flamewar and personal swipes. As far as I can tell, you've done a pretty good job avoiding that in this thread so far.
Edit: well, not entirely - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35469335 was bad. Please stay within the rules when commenting on HN.
Meanwhile, in that time, Solzhenitsyn was outed as a conspiratorial antisemite.
If you want to opt into a goofy American spy movie, be my guest, but your arbitrary choices of who is believable and who isn't are utterly unconvincing.