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Simply not true. It is an exaggerated Western stereotypical view of it. Stephen Kotkins book offer a much more informed view of him and his inner circle.
by publicola1990 5y ago
Simply not true. It is an exaggerated Western stereotypical view of it. Stephen Kotkins book offer a much more informed view of him and his inner circle.
- zabzonk 5y ago
- romanhn 5y agoAn odd assertion, since that user does in fact have plenty of technical comments.
- zabzonk 5y agoWent through five pages and didn't see any. Also anyone that uses phrases like "Western stereotypical view" in the current situation is possibly not all there, unless they explicitly support mass murderes.
- hef19898 5y agoDon't we have something in the HN rules saying about always assuming the best when in doubt about comments? E.g. I'm not Russian, nor do I support murder, the war Ukraine or excuse any war crimes. And regardless here I am constantly complaining about a "stereotypical Western worldview". Why? Because I grew up during the Cold War, which means a lot of history, especially about WW2 and Communism, was, as it turned out, clouded by Cold War and anti-Communist propaganda. Context matters, history isn't happening in a vacuum. Trying to get as neutral a view is good thing.
- elcamino44 5y agoIf you went through five pages and didn’t see any, that’s on you. I just quickly flicked through and saw some about Rust, GDScript and C++.
- tgv 5y ago"Simply not true" suggests it's all a fabrication. But it isn't. It's sped up, and there are some minor changes, and several events have been merged into one. That's it. And even then it doesn't show the full idiocy of the regime. The paranoia, the arrests, the prisons, torture and rape, the scheming, the show trials, even the westerns, it's all true.