Talk:Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites"

Halldór Laxness

Halldór Laxness witnessed the trail and described it in Gerska ævintýrið and later in Skáldatími. In the first edition of Gerska ævintýrið, published 1938, a whole chapter describes the trial with a somewhat approval of it, but in later editions it has changed drastically. In Skáldatími, published 1963, he has completely lost faith in communism and makes it apparent that the trial had been a circus.

Further account

Conquest has a good account of the 1938 Trial in "The Great Terror". He was also a dis-illusioned former Communist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.4.21 (talk) 10:17, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Robert Conquest was never a Communist. He was a poet and anti-Soviet propagandist, the work of whom should be used with extreme caution. Carrite (talk) 17:27, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

His bio in wikipedia says he was. But I agree about caution. By the way he himself admitted that he made mistakes in his earlier books, justifying them by lack of open info about Soviet Union, so that he had to draw conclusions from witness accounts. - üser:Altenmann >t 17:45, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

So many parentheses ...

difficult to read... / 81.186.253.47 (talk) 10:26, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Biased, falsified

False, distorted or unverified information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.45.111.102 (talk) 21:27, 11 October 2020 (UTC)