• a_little_red_rat [he/him, comrade/them]
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    6 months ago

    Even my extremely reactionary super anti-Stalin father, who literally gave me a book of "anecdotes from Stalin's private life" (every single one being shit like "Stalin enjoyed torturing babies", I am serious it's that bad), was extremely skeptical about Solzhenitsyn's claims bc they were just that absurdly exotic lmao

    • roux [he/him, they/them]
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      6 months ago

      Lol I swear there has to be a guy working at the CIA that his only job is to write fucked up fiction whenever a crisis happens. This baby torture sound exactly like when Biden said like 3 times that he definitely saw pictures of Hamas beheading babies because "trust me bro." I haven't seen anything of the sort and with how the internet works in the current era, they'd definitely be "leaked" if they existed. But if I accidentally click on

      CW: children, recent Rafah footage comment

      one more video of a Palestinian pulling a dead child's limp body from a pile of rubble I might actually kill myself.

      • a_little_red_rat [he/him, comrade/them]
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        6 months ago

        If you want I can upload some pages of the book lol. Even if you don't speak Polish (the version of the book) you can run like Google Lens or something on it lol

        • roux [he/him, they/them]
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          6 months ago

          I'm a Yankee so I only know poor man's English. Id be interested in a translated version but don't go out of your way.