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

    • 🏴Akuji@leminal.space
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      49 minutes ago

      I must have failed to convey what I meant. What bothers me is actually framing the report as what it isn’t, not how close to the truth it is. Honestly, if you said something like “the CIA was already collecting comments on what life under Stalin was in the fifties”, I wouldn’t take issue with it.

      I’m genuinely too pooped to entertain you any longer, but beware, I’ll be there next time 🤓