Talk:Soviet Union

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 IMO Solzhenitsyn's Gulag-archipelago is clearly not a historical document- after 1990 plenty of numbers were released - but twists and exaggerates.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)---