The book I am talking about is "The Gulag Archipelago"
See the screenshot (marked text) first. If the book has the power to change your memories so you can't distinguish between what you experienced and what you read, isn't that basically manipulation?
I know that something similar is possible for example with altered photos of you childhood that can trick your memories of the time, for example some object that you were told to have but you didn't.
The author's also an open and proud fascist.
This book is mandatory reading in schools in Russia since about 2010 if i recall correctly, just why :(
It is, and some other his books
The democracy of the bourgeoisie at play.
I think his ex wife also said that it's just embellished stories if not completely made up. Let me see if i can find it
Edit:
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/06/archives/solzhenitsyns-exwife-says-gulag-is-folklore.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/06/world/natalya-reshetovskaya-84-is-dead-solzhenitsyn-s-wife-questioned-gulag.html
She said its "folklore" and its significance "overstated"
It's basically the Uyghur Genocide rhetoric of 20th century.
That would be the Holodomor myth.
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/06/archives/solzhenitsyns-exwife-says-gulag-is-folklore.html