While the article and scenario I linked and talk about are very specific I’d like to use this as a learning experience to be better armed when faced with something similar.
So I was scrolling through videos on tiktok responding to this “leftist” creator and one of the responses was from a reactionary guy I’m semi familiar with, familiar in the sense that I’ve seen responses to his nonsense. Anyway I went to check his account because I had never done it before and saw that he was a self identified Libertarian (bad start) and made videos on USSR history.
The latter worried me a lot and one of his most recent videos was titled “the Bolshevik revolution was evil,” and because I have no self preservation I wanted to see what his sources were. Lo and behold, he only cited this article which has some awful content. People in the comments were raving about how amazing his video was and it made me want to do a bit of a deep dive into if any of the “facts” in the article were in any way true. I just don’t know where to start.
Please mind the trigger warning at the beginning of the article as there are very graphic images and descriptions.
You’ve been very helpful so don’t worry about that!
The hardest thing for me right now is stomaching reading all the lies and falsehoods but I need to start somewhere, and with practice it gets easier.
Starting with the before is definitely my best bet, at least with the Romanovs or even before them. I guess I just have a weird fear that when researching I’ll read and waste my time on unreliable sources. I do have access to places like JSTOR so I know that’s a decent place, plus I’m sure the Prolewiki would be a good place to turn to as well.