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07.04.08

Clueless in Gulagland
Gulags, Russia (0)

This is amusing. I don't have a copy of Anne Applebaum's "Gulag" with me, so was googling about it for stuff I remembered reading. The amusing part is in this review by a William J. Dobosh, Jr., which complains that all the good historical information in the book risks being tarnished by her apparent political conservatism. It's so bad, he points out, that some conservative commentators like her book and defend it. Poor baby. I'm afraid those of us who tend toward conservative liberalism don't have much sympathy. If we ...

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