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[โ€“] iByteABit@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think they're good books, it's just that they're again and again referred to as "proof that communism was horrible" by people who have not the slightest clue how communism actually was besides what the western governments tell them about it

[โ€“] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Written by a British imperial cop who doesn't have the slightest clue about the place he's writing about and relies on his own life experience of oppressing Indians for King and Country to fill in the gaps

[โ€“] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Really I found them dull 1984 especially