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Has anyone here read The Gulag Archipelago? | |
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IssueX User ID: 14348632 United States12/28/2012 10:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | All three volumes make a heavy tome... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 8397139 Is Vol. I enough? Thoughts / comments on this book? Thanks. I read most of Vol 1 a long time ago picked around the rest honestly, it is a bit overwhelming trust me, it will still affect you brillliant it's important to remember that these things actually happened, and to honor the brave men and women who risked their lives to tell the story Last Edited by IssueX on 12/28/2012 10:26 PM |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 8397139 United States12/28/2012 10:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What got me started was a quote I came across by Solzhenitsyn. “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” |
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