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Sure, by giving a work of fiction as evidence, and calling us "tankies" for providing evidence of that fact along with actual historical texts like Russian Justice. When you wilfully replicate Red Scare propaganda even in the face of evidence to the contrary, you are doing the work of anti-communists, hence why any personal feelings you may have towards leftism are secondary to your willful participation in demonizing socialism.
What sources are there that the book is fictional, other than his ex-wife?
Alexander Solzhenitsyn was an anti-semitic Nazi sympathizer, and was arrested as such. His fiction is based on the folklore of the gulag system, and archival evidence and historical texts paint a much clearer picture of the soviet prison system. He's essentially Yeonmi Park but for the USSR.
Here's a real quote:
>The German army could have liberated the Soviet Union from Communism but Hit1er was stupid and did not use this weapon.
From an excellent thread going over his many ideological failings:
I asked for sources that the Gulag book is fiction.
His ex-wife outright called it fictional, he was a known liar and conspiracy theorist, and archival evidence of the soviet prison system contradicts his personal accounts. Do you agree with him about his anti-semitic conspiracy theories, or do you think that he's a selectively honest person with a reliable account of socialism, but completely opposite adherance to the truth otherwise? I'm not sure how much more evidence you need beyond knowing that one anti-semitic Nazi-sympathizer's personal account, whose own wife at the time of writing claimed is fictional, is more trustworthy than historical evidence.
Again, is there any source other than his ex-wife? I didn't deal with his opinion of Jews.
Again, his claims contradict archival evidence, he is a known liar, and has benefited massively from spinning these tall tales, on top of his wife at the time of writing explaining that it's fiction. Are you looking for personal admission of guilt? You won't find it, just like you won't find it from Yeonmi Park. Instead, you find evidence that contradicts his personal account, of which he only supports with his personal, unreliable testemony.
Why exactly do you trust the word alone of an anti-semitic Nazi sympathizer?