Youtube pop history channel not promoting lies and revisionism that are probably copied from wikipedia challenge: EXTREME DIFFICULTY

  • Mehrunes_Laser [comrade/them, any]
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    3 years ago

    Lol I had a friend quote that book to me. So I asked him what our wonderful friend Aleksandr up there did to end up in the gulag. He didn't know so I made him look it up. Most people get pretty uncomfortable when they are asked to defend a Nazi collaborator*. A few years in the gulag seems like a kindness for a Nazi.

    *Edit because collaborator is the wrong word my bad, so sympathizer is a better choice

      • EndOfHerstory [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        :this:

        wikipedia is gonna be the lib’s first move and having a solid source would be helpful

        • Mehrunes_Laser [comrade/them, any]
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          3 years ago

          I can't find the source I had read saying he was a collaborator directly. But there is plenty of evidence he was a sympathizer . Though that link isn't likely to sway any libs.

          • EndOfHerstory [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            Thanks! I found that link when I searched briefly. I’ll probably have to do a deep dive on a collection of his letters or something to get a compelling argument. If I do, I’ll try to remember to post it here.

      • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn#Whitewashing_of_fascist_support

        whoever has these Citations Needed to be sharing them because googled is lathed in layers of whiteness.

      • ABigguhPizzahPieh [none/use name,any]
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        3 years ago

        Honestly kind of surprised he gets so much play in the west considering he likes Putin and thinks Ukraine should be part of a greater Slavic Russia.

      • Mehrunes_Laser [comrade/them, any]
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        3 years ago

        I can't find the info I once did that he was a collaborator. I had read somewhere that he had been actively working within his own military unit to grow an anti-stalin group, and openly criticizing the soviets for not just making peace with Hitler.

        But you can find plenty of evidence of his Nazi sympathy later in life. He was also pretty openly antisemitic.

        Probably not a source that will sway any libs though