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Crimean Tatars being herded onto trains for deportation by the Stalinist regime, where 22-40% would die after 5 years of forced labor and resettlement, 1944 (lemmy.world)

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[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Maybe in the sense of broader political discussions, but the shift in historical academia towards the importance of narratives and not just facts was very much a reaction to the triumphalist 'end of history' mindset of the early 90s. I would also like to note that Chomsky is a linguist, and very much not a historian or anyone with influence on historical academia. despite his... prominent and questionable political following.

[–] orrk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

it's not even the shift towards narratives that is the issue with the reasoning of the guy I was responding to, but instead the conspiratorial framing