Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.

• kat_angstrom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s a rather paltry article to link to declare “fiction”, based solely on his ex-wife. From wikipedia -

  Solzhenitsyn constructed his highly detailed narrative from various sources including reports, interviews, statements, diaries, legal documents, and his own experience as a Gulag prisoner.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago

  It’s not “100% accurate, detailed notes from one man’s point of view”, but this book is widely acknowledged to be a nonfiction account, even if many of the tales & details are anecdotal and not verifiable.

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• VinegarChunks@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s a very large conclusion to reach from one person’s completely undetailed single statement.

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