Post #769928
2026-03-25 15:05 UTC
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@Pman@lemmy.org 2026-03-25 16:09
Yeah, the Soviet union is not a place I would have liked to live in during its time in power, and from stories I’ve gotten from family that fled during Stalin’s time it is a safe assumption to have as those who remained did not have a great time during the Holodomor.
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@Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2026-03-25 16:50
It should be noted that the claims of Stalin impregnating Pereprygina at 14 come from Simon Sebag Montefiore, who himself is not a historian, was not given access to the soviet archives (which is the starting point for modern soviet historiography), and who himself is in Epstein’s black book. It does seem plausible that Stalin may have fathered a child in Siberia with Lidia Pereprygina while in exile based on modern evidence, but no such evidence presently exists backing up when this may have happened. The fact that primary sources are practically nonexistent and that the only one pushing this narrative of Stalin being a pedophile wrap back around to Montefiore’s claims (themselves based largely on hearsay for the more absurd claims), points to it likely being propaganda and Red Scare fearmongering.