Damn, thanks Doc. This was pretty intense and insightful. I did not know anything aboht Holodomor, aside from claims that 7-20 mil were starved. This piece shed new light on this affair and really brought things to life in a quite grounded way. Looking forward to your next essays!
Thanks for this informative essay (despite being so very difficult to read, at least for a non-native English speaker, because of the grammar, strange words, missing commas, apostrophes, etc.) Not the first time I read that the Holodomor figures have been greatly exaggerated. Unfortunately, more often than not it is hard or even impossible to know what really happened in the past because historians -and people in the position of passing the history on- are rarely devoid of some bias or other, when they’re not plain liars.
Thanks for even reading it, I genuinely appreciate it. That was my first attempt at trying to edit my own work and its actually crazy how painful re-reading ones own long essays is in an attempt to get the grammar all correct. Hopefully Ill get better at it with practice.
You’re most welcome! All the posts you’ve published so far have enticing titles, and I intend to read them, but a day at a time, for they’re really long. Perhaps dividing them in sections or segments might make for an easier reading? Just an idea.
Anyway, maybe I’m a slow reader because I’m not familiar with many of the references (names, characters, acronyms, historic events, ironic remarks, etc.) and I often need to make a pause for sorting out what they’re about.
Damn, thanks Doc. This was pretty intense and insightful. I did not know anything aboht Holodomor, aside from claims that 7-20 mil were starved. This piece shed new light on this affair and really brought things to life in a quite grounded way. Looking forward to your next essays!
Thanks for this informative essay (despite being so very difficult to read, at least for a non-native English speaker, because of the grammar, strange words, missing commas, apostrophes, etc.) Not the first time I read that the Holodomor figures have been greatly exaggerated. Unfortunately, more often than not it is hard or even impossible to know what really happened in the past because historians -and people in the position of passing the history on- are rarely devoid of some bias or other, when they’re not plain liars.
Thanks for even reading it, I genuinely appreciate it. That was my first attempt at trying to edit my own work and its actually crazy how painful re-reading ones own long essays is in an attempt to get the grammar all correct. Hopefully Ill get better at it with practice.
You’re most welcome! All the posts you’ve published so far have enticing titles, and I intend to read them, but a day at a time, for they’re really long. Perhaps dividing them in sections or segments might make for an easier reading? Just an idea.
Anyway, maybe I’m a slow reader because I’m not familiar with many of the references (names, characters, acronyms, historic events, ironic remarks, etc.) and I often need to make a pause for sorting out what they’re about.