• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    People don’t generally read books even if I link them unless they are already interested in what I have to say. I could link Losurdo’s Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend if I wanted to share an objective critique of the man that neither glorifies nor demonizes him, or I could link sources on how the USSR was run so the term “dictator” doesn’t make sense, but barely anyone would read them.

    The CIA’s later report seems to more be the “official line” rather than genuine analysis IMO.

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        3 months ago

        Sorry about the flu.

        As for your comments, I disagree that the doc I linked is dishonest, manipulative, or misinformation. They didn’t need to poach from the politburo to look at the structure of the USSR, Americans like Pat Sloan already went to the USSR and reported on how it functioned (not to the CIA, but in general). Archival evidencen we have today backs up the claims made in the doc as well.