Remembering to look for and ignore folks with that telltale indicator has made the fediverse so much more enjoyable.

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    Yep, Wikipedia is written largely by westerners using western consensus, even if such consensus has inaccuracies or better information is available post-opening of the soviet archives. You can even see it uses the Gulag Archipelago as a source, despite it being a work of fiction.

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        I suppose to a certain degree that’s true, I just don’t trust the personal account of a Nazi that has been known to lie and that contradicts archival evidence.