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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 7 Jan 2017

    It used to be worse Part II: Siberia under the Czars.http://nyti.ms/2hYCx2o 

    10:42 AM - 7 Jan 2017
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      1. Jim Austin‏ @JimAustin45 7 Jan 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        According to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Siberia was not worse under the Czars. He described it as better than under communist rule.

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      1. Knut Hamsun was Right‏ @sagajake 8 Jan 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        The Tsar evidently didn't send enough (((Bolsheviks))) and (((revolutionaries))) to Siberia. He should have expanded the gulags.

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      1. David Fantarrow‏ @dfantarrow642 7 Jan 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Then Stalin came along and made everything better as history marched forward to the Utopian paradise that is now

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      1. Litchfield‏ @JoeNJTech 9 Jan 2017
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        Big fat lie.

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      1. Suzanne Stout Parcel‏ @StoutParcel 7 Jan 2017
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        People who think we live in hard times have no knowledge of history.

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      1. tb‏ @eltheanine 7 Jan 2017
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        get a hair cut curly

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      2. G Carpet Pernman‏ @GCarpetPernman 7 Jan 2017
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        G Carpet Pernman Retweeted Steven Pinker

        @ElamBend #DishonestTweetshttps://twitter.com/sapinker/status/817803660524560384 …

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        Steven PinkerVerified account @sapinker
        It used to be worse Part II: Siberia under the Czars. http://nyti.ms/2hYCx2o 
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      3. G Carpet Pernman‏ @GCarpetPernman 7 Jan 2017
        Replying to @GCarpetPernman @sapinker

        pic.twitter.com/sin78AxIZl

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      1. Wagner's music‏ @Wagnersmusic1 8 Jan 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @nytimes

        As Simon Schama shows in his book on Fr Rev, by 1700 the aristocracy was a meritocracy so "revolution" was unnecessary.

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      2. Wagner's music‏ @Wagnersmusic1 8 Jan 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @nytimes

        Given his discipline, SP must be relieved that it's empirical that his grandson will be as wise as he!!

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      3. Wagner's music‏ @Wagnersmusic1 8 Jan 2017
        Replying to @Wagnersmusic1 @sapinker @nytimes

        This particular tweet notwithstanding!!!

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      1. Wagner's music‏ @Wagnersmusic1 8 Jan 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @nytimes

        The relevant factor is who's locked up, esp given subsequent history. The aristocracy could have turned meritocracy.

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      1. Johnny Soybean‏ @LeHomme79 8 Jan 2017
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        ngga plz

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      1. Sean Jason Webb‏ @SeanJasonWebb 7 Jan 2017
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        At whatpoi t do we say Russia is just a harsh and brutal society?

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      1. LolaMarina  🌍‏ @1lolamarina 7 Jan 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @nytimes

        Stalin. The Reign of terror. The Holocausto. People have such short- term memories.

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