18 February 1929 Russian writer and poet Varlam Shalamov was arrested accused of violating article 58 item 10 of Criminal Code of the RSFSR ("anti-Soviet agitation") for illegally printing... Lenin's letters from 1922.
The reason, in spite of the fact that Lenin was still one of the official Soviet saints, was that the letters were highly critical of Stalin. In 30's the letter was declared a "fake" and its possession was a crime, only decriminalised and again declared genuine in 1956.
@kravietz If that was in the Latin alphabet, I still couldn’t read it. But, …
It is considered an unwarranted difficulty that the Latin alphabet forces learners to learn at least two alphabets, the uppercase and lowercase. But this is an advantage. If you just make lowercase smaller versions of the uppercase, text is hard to read.
I’m sure I would know Russian by now if it wasn’t for that undocumented feature of the Cyrillic alphabet.
@epic It's widely available in English commentaries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin's_Testament
@kravietz Already got fooled once tonight and learned a bunch of biased stuff from wikipedo. I will find an external link at the bottom before I end up reading the propaganda surely on that page.
(My most typed word on my computer is “-wikipedia” on DuckDuckGo.)
@kravietz What on Earth does that have to do with the fact that someone needs to fix the Cyrillic alphabet? 😀 (Thanks.)