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====More on Solzhenitsyn====

====More on Solzhenitsyn====

After reading the revelations of Solzhenitsyn in the 1970s, the problems it presented to understanding and teaching about the World War affected everyone in the East and [[the West]]. I was only a student, but it affected even more the people who lived through the events, and provided great eyeopeners, that their understanding of events during the war and next 30 years after were based on lies. My Slovak speaking grandmother who lived through two world wars and could understand much Russian, helped me.

After reading the revelations of Solzhenitsyn in the 1970s, the problems it presented to understanding and teaching about the World War affected everyone in the East and [[the West]]. I was only a student, but it affected even more the people who lived through the events, and provided great eyeopeners, that their understanding of events during the war, and next 30 years after, were based on lies. My Slovak speaking grandmother who lived through two world wars and could understand much Russian, helped me.

One problem was the equation of "Russia" and "Russian" with "communism" in the Angelo-American world, making the terms synonymous. Solzhenitsyn taught us that Russia and Russians were not communist. The Nobel Prize in Literature put an official stamp from the West on that basic premise. But you can't undo 30 years of [[fake news]] and [[propaganda]] in popular culture overnight, if ever.

One problem was the equation of "Russia" and "Russian" with "communism" in the Angelo-American world, making the terms synonymous. Solzhenitsyn taught us that Russia and Russians were not communist. The Nobel Prize in Literature put an official stamp from the West on that basic premise. But you can't undo 30 years of [[fake news]] and [[propaganda]] in popular culture overnight, if ever.