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    21 hours ago

    you are literally quoting a russian defector. the cia has already declassified it paid plenty of these to smear the soviet union, especially around stalins time.

    have you actually read the book you keep pasting here?

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      you are literally quoting a russian defector.

      All 3 volumes of his book were written long before he was exiled by the Soviets. The fact that he was kicked out of his own country by his embarrassed government doesn’t make one single word of it untrue. And his earlier book about the Soviet Gulag under Stalin was personally approved by Soviet leader Kruschev.

      of these to smear the soviet union, especially around stalins time.

      How come Soviet leader Kruschev personally approved the authors earlier book about the Soviet Gulag for publication in the USSR? This was the book written “around Stalin’s time”. You can read that book here.

      https://archive.org/details/onedayinlifeofiv0000solz_i4j0

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day_in_the_Life_of_Ivan_Denisovich

      That you don’t understand the timeline of what, when and where things were published is proof you don’t have the faintest idea what was actually going on. And the fact that you are extremely comfortable with casual dishonesty, even more than Trump, is why you don’t have any credibility here.

      the cia has already declassified

      LMFAO! It was never “classified” in America. Why the fuck would anybody in America “classify” a book written by a Russian inside Russia about Russia?

      it paid plenty

      The CIA paid Stalin to throw Solzhenitsyn in jail for 7 years so that he could collect his material?..LMFAO. How come he had very little money? What the fuck could he have even used money for in the USSR since there was nothing to buy and the author spend all but the last 4 years of his life inside Russia and never even imagined he would be allowed to leave?

      have you actually read the book you keep pasting here?

      I have. If you had read it you would know that Lenin and Stalin did more to destroy socialism than any other people in history. They started out by killing all the real Socialists in Russia, the Menshiviks. Socialism was popular around the world in the early 20th century until Lenin and Stalin killed it by pretending to be “socialists” and associating socialism in the minds of people with a totalitarianism nightmare. Stalin even became the official ally of fellow dictator Adolf Hitler.