• CommunistLady@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Werth, Nicholas (1999). “A State against Its People: Violence, Repression, and Terror in the Soviet Union”. In Courtois, Stéphane (ed.). The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression. Translated by Mark Kraemer; Jonathan Murphy (illustrated hardcover ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 164. ISBN 9780674076082. Retrieved 2 December 2021 – via Google Books.

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        A lot of sources are for more general historic claims and some that aren’t are likely a circular citation. In any case, if you want to pretend to be a communist, it’s basic decency to not throw a list of accusations at someone that includes obvious anticommunist bullshit like the Black Book.

        Anarchists uncritically quoting wikipedia – which is infamous for its anticommunist historical revisionism – is a funny bit