Epstein Secrets

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ing outright censorship, brought to bear on Russian historians during Soviet times and more recently during the Putin era. China: Evading the past Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward ranks among the most deadly politically inspired catastrophes in human history. From 1958 to 1962, Communist Party authorities, u

ficials have refused to acknowledge anything approaching the full dimen- sions of the tragedy. Nor have they admitted that the party, and especially Mao, were responsible. Often they blame the weather. There are no official monu- ments to the victims, no days of commemoration, no serious histories ava

award he had received.”° The government threatened to withdraw support from the useum of the Second World War, a project that was near completion in Gdansk and enjoyed strong support from such highly regarded scholars as Timothy Snyder and Norman Davies. PiS complained that the museum focused on all vict