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Solzhenitsyn's Ex‐Wife Says ‘Gulag’ Is ‘Folklore’: https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/06/archives/solzhenitsyns-exwife-says-gulag-is-folklore.html https://www.nyt

• flannery 7y ago
  That doesn't contradict the article. Literary truth is its own thing.
  • teddyh 7y ago
    I think people call it “directionally true” nowadays.
  • umadon 7y ago
    Sure, just weird that everyone is enamored of a "literary" truth at the expense of grown-up historical research.