1931-1939: the Years of Red Terror

There is a bad idea among those who criticize historical memory: the need to build the “other memory” to unmask the distortion of the past. This approach is a mistake because it involves entering the rag of a political battle alien to true history. I know it is very tempting, but playing in the opponent’s field with its rules and language grants a victory to the contrary and a defeat to scientific discipline. The opposite of historical memory (t…