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Paul Johnson, Leo, WBW, Freedom of Thoughts, Tomas Frank, e25/3, str – 50m. S – 5, R – 20, p, g, c, m, s – 2, i – 3, M, w – 3km.
Maybe it’s time to write a little bit about Paul Johnson’s book? I’ve been reading the book for a month and still said nothing about it. I guess if it were written in Russian I wouldn’t read it at all. However, it goes well in English, and I don’t even care so much about a lot of lies the author applies to convince readers in the validity of his worldview. And though I don’t take it seriously, my desire to continue reading his book doesn’t lose its strength.
Now I’m reading about Nazi Germany and Hitler’s regime. Johnson is a denouncer of any “totalitarian” states and for him there is no big difference between Germany of 1933 and Soviet Union of 1918. Hitler, Lenin, and Stalin are considered from the same high measure view point and represented as maniacs the chief passion of whom was the “will to power,” and who would never give up pursuing it despite lots of possible violence, crimes, victims, etc.
The book contains tons of quotes and references and looks like a doctor’s dissertation. There are also many details and a huge amount of statistics, but of course, not as much as in Lenin’s or Mark’s books. It’s almost obvious for me that this man, Paul Johnson, didn’t take Lenin’s or Mark’s books in hand whatsoever. He is a narrow-minded thinker, but it’s interesting to read him due to controversy of his thoughts to anything I learned in school. Of course, I understand that there are lots of ways to look at history, though I’ve never tried to consider it from the perspectives of any other language. When I’ll have finished reading this fat book, I’ll have got a great deal of information which may be useful not only for studying English but also for better understanding of what was going on in the world before I came here.

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