• VolcelVanguard [he/him]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    Yeah I mean I'm not shocked that a Cato Institute historian has no interest in defending the Bolsheviks; however, it's definitely effective in dispelling a piece of Nazi propaganda that's been repeated for the last 80 years.

    • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Kotkin is like the only major historian that actually read the archives so he's all we got for now.

      • Florist [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Why is that the case? Do other historians not have access to the archives?

      • VolcelVanguard [he/him]
        hexagon
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        3 years ago

        Certainly, I'm as red as it gets and I still cringe when I read people blaming the famine on "kulaks" who owned something like ~2 acres of farmland & a cow.