tovarisch wrote: But you seem to be reading in my words what you had on your mind, not what I had on mine.
Well, everybody does, no? After all, I can read MY mind, but not YOURS (or anybody elses)...
I have explained to other people who would ask me about our text policy that I see LV as a library and us volunteers as librarians. We archive the books as they are, as they were written by the authors - children of their times, formed by their own circumstances.
We ourselves are not historians to interpret or criticise (which is always easy in hindsight). We just put the books out there for people to make up their own minds. Things and how we see them are constantly changing, some times for the better, some times for the worse.