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Why do you need pictures of camp inmates to believe that the Gulag was an integral part of the system?

And (Nial?) Ferguson seems to be alive and well and speaking his mind freely, like wut? Was he de-banked recently?

Is Nial Ferguson really your idea of a troublesome dissident?

> To understand what is at stake in the fight against the axis of China, Russia and Iran, just read “The Lord of the Rings.”

I have to assume this isn't whom the parent had in mind, it's just too funny otherwise.

Do you realize the that the in your quote Smithsonian is describing Solzhenitsyn's argument, not editorializing?

Do you know that Solzhenitsyn was a Russian author and Soviet dissident and critic who spent years the Gulag prison system?