Been thinkin' a long time about the need to translate and publish this monumental opus in Nepal, in Nepali.
Even during the Panchayat era in certain, slightly off-the-beat, bookstores and newsstands you could find China Reconstructs and (North) Korean propaganda mags, in English, with smiling peasants driving shiny tracotrs and burly truck-drivers on top of dams. I think these mags were one of the roots of the "rosy" perception of communism as a wave of the future.
For all the billions of $$ in the CIA budget, the US never gave these totalitarians any serious competion!
So if someone who has some "loose" funds thinks it's a worthy cause, or if someone has time to translate this book, contact me...
Also the NTV should contact the Czech TV, they made fantastic documentaries from Magadan about Gulag. And the Polish TV, and the Latvian TV, the list goes on...
A lot of, most of, Nepalese knew zilch, zero, nada about the horrors of communism: and sadly had to experience the commissars' "gentle" touch on their own back... and experience the ultimate horror of their children, by the thousands, being taken to "reeducation" camps...
Compare this suffering to the effete journos whining about some Indian-owned FM-station loosing illegal up-link equipement! Where is the sense of proportion?
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