Is he actually considered controversial or is it just a tankie meme?

>>3028623
He named the jew iirc that's why he's controversial to most people.

>>3028623
Meme. Varlam Shalamov is superior in every way.

>>3028623
Largely irrelevant and trying way too hard.

>>3028635
Now that's a meme, his good friend was Lev Kopelev, who inspired the character Rubin in The First Circle.

>>3028637
I find it funny how the political views of the many socialists and leftists imprisoned by the USSR conveniently are left out of mainstream history books. Shalamov was a socialist IIRC.

>how DARE he expose the horrors of gommunism!!!

Why is leftypol so stupid?

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>>3031355
tankies gonna tank

>>3028623
No, he isn't considered controversial at all. he was really in the gulags. Maybe this >>3028635 his new book about the Jews is kind of controversial.

>b-but his wife said he was lying
>b-but he was a novelist
>b-but Stalin dindu nuffin

>>3031376
lmao

>>3031355
No one has accused or denounced him for anything yet
isn't this what is called a "strawman"?

>>3031376
wasn't his "counter-revolutionary, pro-nazi" crime just writing a letter to a colleague where he said something bad about Stalin?

>>3028623
Pretty much for him to avoid controversy requires selective listening by his audience, which there was loads of during the cold war, and now loads of forgetting.

He wrote and entire book about how no one in America wanted to actually listen to what he was saying.

>>3031415
That's a crime worse than the holocaust for a tankie.

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>>3028623
>>3028623
like orwell's animal farm and 1984, he is large remember because the west wanted fiction that justified their anti soviet world view