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Several years ago, the well-known Russian writer Boris Akunin wrote a post about “ruining one’s obituary.” He cited the classic examples best known in his field. The prolific Russian writer Maxim Gorky, author of remarkable works, lived, on the whole, a dignified life until the late 1920s. But in 1929 he traveled to the Stalinist Solovki camp — essentially a death camp — to observe how prisoners were being “re-educated.” About a year later he published an article justifying terror, with the notorious line: “If the…
























































