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Dostoevsky's books, at least their English translations, are absolute shit. CaP was just tolerable. TBK and Idiot were sheer torture. He bests Tolstoy only insofar he didn't drag it out as long (although drag out he did).


Not only English translations :) And the man was a real nazi. Hated Poles, Jews, French, Germans - anyone not Russian. This is where Dugin, Putin and other modern vampires draw inspiration from.


Hated Poles, Jews, French, Germans - anyone not Russian.

But that does not make one a Nazi.

Thinking that it does dilutes the discussion.


Well, nazis had not been invented yet in 18xx, but same line of thinking.


Then they probably should have picked a qualifier besides "real".

It just leads to garbled thinking, this kind of random sloshing-of-words-around.




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