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>>9790345
>Name a more influential author of the past 200 years.
Brandon Sanderson

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>>9790345
Reminder the memelag archipelago is L I T E R A L F I C T I O N

>>9790386
>blame the famines on the memeshit scientists
Stalin kept the Lysenkoist scientists relevant long after their expiration date because their ideas were proletarian, you fucking retard.

>>9790386
What a retarded history of Stalinist Russia

>>9790345
Jk rowling

>>9790345
Hahahahahaahahahaha
N1 OP almost made me chuckle

>>9790345
fuck the amish

>>9790404
>facts are retarded

>Name a more influential author of the past 200 years.

JK Rowling obviously.

>>9790701
>Historical facts over conflicting evidence
People lie.

>>9791055
The fact that stalin turned a peasant shithole into a superpower is beyond debate

>>9791132
>peasant shithole

It really wasn't that bad. It wasn't as great as Western Europe but it wasn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be.

>>9790345
The list is nearly endless.

jack Kerouac.

I mean, its not hard.

james joyce,tolkien etc etc

GRRM

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>>9791163
> it wasn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be.
Would you like to provide some evidence for that claim?

>>9790386
How accurate is this summary
Why does it miss out the stalinist purges and mass deportations
What else does it miss out

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>>9790345
>Name a more influential author of the past 200 years
are you fucking joking

>>9790345


just finished reading part 1 of the gulag archipelago

truly the most brutal book i've ever put my hands on...

Wasn't sure how it could get any worse for those people, and it just kept getting worse and worse...


Communism just scares the shit out of me now.

>>9790386

stopped reading at

>famine immediately ends

What a ferry tale.

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>>9790345
He looks like Paul Whitehouse in disguise

>>9792407
Even if you are reactionary you have to give it up to Marx.

>>9790352
Really? Sanderson? Not Jordan?

You could have gone with a non-meme but ridiculous reply and said King, Rice, or Rowling.

You could have given a slightly serious response with Tolkien, Asimov, or Dick.

>>9791132
Yea this, the fact that Russia's status as a superpower is virtually mythology and without nuclear weapons no one would have given a shit notwithstanding.

>Be Solzhenitsyn
>Go to gulag
>Snitch on your mates
>Get a comfy job in a sharashka
>Write a shitty book that gets praised in the West for anti-Sovietism
>Get Nobels
Just read Shalamov, not this fucking hack.

>>9793207
>Yea this, the fact that Russia's status as a superpower is virtually mythology and without nuclear weapons no one would have given a shit notwithstanding.
I was talking about the USSR, not Russia.

You know, the guys that won WW2.

>>9793218
>Shitty

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>>9793218
>signature /lit/ pseud contrarianism

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>>9790345
>*tide of history rises behind you*
>nothing personable kid

>>9793207
>Yea this, the fact that Russia's status as a superpower is virtually mythology and without nuclear weapons no one would have given a shit notwithstanding.
>american education

>>9793207
But what about the fact that Russia had been a major world power for the last 200 years prior to WW2, a major regional power before that, and was arguably the greatest military power from the Napoleonic Wars until WW2? Even despite falling behind technologically and exerting a disproportionately small level of economic and naval influence, they had arguably the greatest land army on the continent (and by extension, the world). By the 20th century the only difference was that, if nothing else, they had increased the economic and naval capacities (and arguably the stregth of their army as well).

>>9790345
Umberto Eco
Jorge Luis Borges
Camille Paglia
Thomas Sowell

Yeah I mean who else could write hundreds of pages with people building shit.