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Isn't this basically admitting to the book being propaganda? (lemmygrad.ml)
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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.

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[–] DonLongSchlong@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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"

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's basically the Uyghur Genocide rhetoric of 20th century.

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 day ago

That would be the Holodomor myth.