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Sitting alone in the highest tower of your mind palace, curtains drawn, coming up with things that happened in the outside world through pure wisdom and common sense
"What exactly am I talking about?" you say, "Well isn't it obvious?! Everybody knows!"
"communists hate science after all!" you add after a moment's pause.
Don't be silly, I ask the nice robed dudes outside to tell me what's going on in the world in the form of a cool shadow puppet theater.
The Soviet response to the famine is actually a really interesting topic. I’ve fascinated people with examples of famine relief, and Pavel Luk’ianenko is an especially interesting historical figure. The class war involving the rural petite‐bourgeoisie sounds like it was pretty intense, too. It’s a shame that teaching this history is so stigmatized in the West.