Difference between revisions of "Talk:Soviet Union"
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
(Created page with "Jun, The country has been subject to 80 years of Cold War myths and propaganda. It is seen only to foreign eyes, often helped by units such as the Information Research Depar...") |
(Solzhenitsyn -> Terje) |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
| + | ==Solzhenitsyn== | ||
Jun, | Jun, | ||
The country has been subject to 80 years of Cold War myths and propaganda. It is seen only to foreign eyes, often helped by units such as the [[Information Research Department]] and [[Operation Mockingbird]], which makes the impression of it a bit unbalanced in the West, an [[enemy image]] a bit similar to today's Russia. I believe it is more rewarding to add things that are less well known - there are lots of these facts, which I will get around to eventually! IMO Solzhenitsyn's Gulag-archipelago is clearly not a historical document- after 1990 plenty of numbers were released - but twists and exaggerates. | The country has been subject to 80 years of Cold War myths and propaganda. It is seen only to foreign eyes, often helped by units such as the [[Information Research Department]] and [[Operation Mockingbird]], which makes the impression of it a bit unbalanced in the West, an [[enemy image]] a bit similar to today's Russia. I believe it is more rewarding to add things that are less well known - there are lots of these facts, which I will get around to eventually! IMO Solzhenitsyn's Gulag-archipelago is clearly not a historical document- after 1990 plenty of numbers were released - but twists and exaggerates. | ||
| Line 6: | Line 7: | ||
This is not a veiled request that you stop adding things, only a mention that I will expand it with different angles later. | This is not a veiled request that you stop adding things, only a mention that I will expand it with different angles later. | ||
[[User:Terje|Terje]] ([[User talk:Terje|talk]])--- | [[User:Terje|Terje]] ([[User talk:Terje|talk]])--- | ||
| + | |||
| + | :While I agree with your stances that the page is clearly not done yet, I included it because it is being touted as "having brought down the empire" , of course, that's incorrect, but the fact that the west had such interest to popularize the book made me add it, as it probably means the west liked the narrative it told and conditioned into minds. That brings different angles to every page. So that would be my only request, if you would be willing to name him in a spirit of "work of figures like Solzhenitsyn was widely quoted as anti-soviet propaganda/to adhere and solidify the stereotypes/russophobia" when trimming. --[[User:Jun|Jun]] ([[User talk:Jun|talk]]) 12:35, 27 May 2021 (UTC) | ||
Revision as of 12:36, 27 May 2021
Solzhenitsyn
Jun, The country has been subject to 80 years of Cold War myths and propaganda. It is seen only to foreign eyes, often helped by units such as the Information Research Department and Operation Mockingbird, which makes the impression of it a bit unbalanced in the West, an enemy image a bit similar to today's Russia. I believe it is more rewarding to add things that are less well known - there are lots of these facts, which I will get around to eventually! IMO Solzhenitsyn's Gulag-archipelago is clearly not a historical document- after 1990 plenty of numbers were released - but twists and exaggerates.
It is the same problem as with other enemies like WW2, other Cold War opponents etc.
This is not a veiled request that you stop adding things, only a mention that I will expand it with different angles later. Terje (talk)---
- While I agree with your stances that the page is clearly not done yet, I included it because it is being touted as "having brought down the empire" , of course, that's incorrect, but the fact that the west had such interest to popularize the book made me add it, as it probably means the west liked the narrative it told and conditioned into minds. That brings different angles to every page. So that would be my only request, if you would be willing to name him in a spirit of "work of figures like Solzhenitsyn was widely quoted as anti-soviet propaganda/to adhere and solidify the stereotypes/russophobia" when trimming. --Jun (talk) 12:35, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
