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    2 months ago

    Recently found out about “Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar” by Simon Jonathan Sebag Montefiore. I get the feeling it’s a pretty lib book, but has anyone read it? Is it worth a read?

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      2 months ago

      I’m reading Lasurdos book on Stalin, probably a better alternative. Haven’t finished it but his aim is to give a more objective view of Stalin and the party during his time, good and bad, instead of regurgitating propaganda like western pop-history authors

    • vyitnoomyr@lemmygrad.mlBanned
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      2 months ago

      I love bringing this guy up because his whole story about

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      Stalin raping a child

      is inexplicable & written in a bafflingly unserious tone for the subject matter. Also, he’s in Jeffrey Epstein’s contact book. (The real one, not the supposed second one that CIA asset Christopher Helali mysteriously “found on eBay” which was promoted by Rolling Stone. He is always crying about the fucking Romanovs, gets in all sorts of #badfilmdocumentaries