New: "'Stalin's Purges' of 1937-38" by Russian historian Yuri Emelyanov, who relies on scholarship in his country to re-examine the causes and consequences of the famous purges, centring the international situation and the Soviet permission of excesses to rapidly industrialise.
@Genrikh_Yeggoda 1. Chinese)
2. I’m interested in Soviet history and Communism. Some of your posts about these historical figures are somewhat weird but I can understand. I’ve met other people like u in Chinese internet(?). btw I admire Felix Derzhinsky.
«Мы, коммунисты, должны жить так, чтобы широчайшие массы трудящихся видели, что мы не дорвавшаяся к власти ради личных интересов каста, не новая аристократия, а слуги народа».
Ф. Э. Дзержинский. Цитируется по: С. С. Дзержинская, «Памяти Феликса Дзержинского», 1938 г.
I'm not sure about whether I continue to speak English here or turn to speak Chinese.)) English is better on this international platform, but it's hard for me to discuss those political stuff in English. And that's the only thing I'd like to talk about.
My VPN doesn't work well. I have no access to zlib, and the translation tool here is totally dead. Some damned people stop me from surf the Internet freely. I don't want to say who they are.
I wonder if the Russian are allowed to use Twitter and Facebook or not. I've read an article suggests that these social media are banned after the war began.