• Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      They're great. There's no external ideological filter or censor making you wonder what's missing. The most interesting narratives are from absolutely marginalized people, so these have no presence at all in the capitalist narratives that are about what happened to these people.

      There's a realky compelling one, which I can't find anymore, about a Jewish man living in a barn with other Jews that were given as slaves to a farmer (I think in Ukraine). He watched his son get shot and killed for stealing clothes and get left on a pile of corpses in front of the barn. One day a Soviet plane flew over, so he knew their liberation was imminent.

      The farmer, hoping for leniency, at the last moment begged him to tell the Soviets that he hadn't been too cruel.