This comment cracks me up too because they link to a 6 year old answer to a question about The Gulag Achipelago author's claim, that is essentially a giant wall of text stating that although "several independent sources" said the same thing, there is no proof one way or the other and the author might as well have made it the fuck up, and then a comment says "so most likely true?" How do you get that from a long winded vibes-based comment that states that there was no proof but even if it was made up, sure why not because Stalin was a meanie weanie?
"I'm kind of a professional armchair Soviet historian and the answer is yes because I feel like that is what it would be based on my totally unbiased information of the USSR that is drip-fed to me by the CIA."
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
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.
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
Solzitnisin (i dont care enough to spell it right or remember how) made up all kinds of shit that is proven false but that wont stop anyone from believing everything he said
I am absolutely not surprised. The Stalin clapping thing makes about as much sense as the 100 gorbillian dead while demonstrating an increase in population. It kind of astounds me that people will just believe stuff so obviously fabricated and repeat it ad nauseam.
R*dditors will eat any and all propaganda up
Guy literally says "actually I made it up" "nah I bet it really happened"
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1cn1oto/footage_of_north_koreans_running_into_the_water/l345inw/
This comment cracks me up too because they link to a 6 year old answer to a question about The Gulag Achipelago author's claim, that is essentially a giant wall of text stating that although "several independent sources" said the same thing, there is no proof one way or the other and the author might as well have made it the fuck up, and then a comment says "so most likely true?" How do you get that from a long winded vibes-based comment that states that there was no proof but even if it was made up, sure why not because Stalin was a meanie weanie?
"I'm kind of a professional armchair Soviet historian and the answer is yes because I feel like that is what it would be based on my totally unbiased information of the USSR that is drip-fed to me by the CIA."
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
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.
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
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.
Solzitnisin (i dont care enough to spell it right or remember how) made up all kinds of shit that is proven false but that wont stop anyone from believing everything he said
red sails article about libs wanting to believe this shit or whatever
I am absolutely not surprised. The Stalin clapping thing makes about as much sense as the 100 gorbillian dead while demonstrating an increase in population. It kind of astounds me that people will just believe stuff so obviously fabricated and repeat it ad nauseam.
these are the same people who think millions of uighurs are being executed in a facility the size of my middle school
Yeeeeep.