It is not apology of Stalin to maintain that the secret internal Gulag statistics was accurate, or that the trains of cattle cars run on time and the supply of barbed wire was adequate. That idea should not be so hard to grasp.
Conquest's grudging retraction is incompatible with his claims that post-Soviet published archives vindicate his estimates ("I told you so").
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Re: to simplify:
Date: 2007-11-23 11:31 pm (UTC)Conquest's grudging retraction is incompatible with his claims that post-Soviet published archives vindicate his estimates ("I told you so").
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