A tale of the true communism

[htpcl]

Lo, dear history revisionists fans of the objective truth! It's your fave provider of alternate history parables anecdotal experiences speaking again. See, today is "an" historic day in the... ehm, history of my tiny country situated on the fringe between Europe and Asia. Btw Monday was another historic day too. All in all, seems like this week is

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[anfalicious]

Great points on History. I gave a similar speech yesterday to my class "the dates and places and happenings are largely irrelevant they are just a narrative to keep you interested while I teach you some skills"; those skills are Historiography.

[htpcl]

You teach?

[luvdovz]

Bookmarked for further reading.

[sandwichwarrior]

My Grandparents were born in Ukraine and much and my impressesions of Communism and Socialism were shaped by their accounts of growing up durring the famine. Like you, members of my extended family were taken either by the Fascists when they invaded or by the Soviets when they were liberated. Depending on who you ask the political enforcers were about to grab Grandfather when he managed to book passage to Canada for himself, his brother and their respective families.

[htpcl]

Turns out there wasn't a single unaffected family from those early stages of totalitarianism.