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> When already "the editorial page vigorously dissented from his accounts." Yeah, that's just ass-covering and weaseling. > But I guess it is a credit to the
by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> When already "the editorial page vigorously dissented from his accounts."
Yeah, that's just ass-covering and weaseling.
> But I guess it is a credit to them for going back and writing about something everyone else had forgotten
Stalin was murdering and enslaving people within living memory, and his successors continued the process until 1991.
I assure you that the surviving victims and their friends and families have not "forgotten".
- nl 9y agoAnd the NY Times reported that murdering and enslaving that whole time, including while that dodgy reporter was reporting otherwise. Here's one from the year before that apology (ie, from 1989): http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/04/world/major-soviet-paper-says-20-million-died-as-victims-of-stalin.html http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/04/world/major-soviet-paper-s...