Build it like a caveman, but bear responsibility according to the rules of the 20th century. (V2p88)

Описание: The task of Soviet corrective-labor policy is "the transformation of the nastiest human material into worthwhile, fully useful, active and conscientious builders of socialism".

— Averbakh
[as per A. Solzhenitsyn,
(quote: Vol2, p104)
(Images: Vol2, Ch 3, p71– 120)]

UPDATE:

I have created a full Playlist to listen to, called:
"The GULag Archipelago: readalong."

I hope you will join me in reading this incredible witty, moving, maddening, incisive, and devastating "experiment in literary investigation" — as the author titled it. It is one of the the most impactful books of the 20th century. This great work by Nobel Laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn threw off the facade and exposed the Communist Party, the Bolshevik government, and intellectuals for the monsters they were

The Gulag Archipelago (Vol 2)
To be continued.... reading in progress.

#thegulagarchipelago #gulag #gulagstories

#sovietunion #aleksandrisolzhenitsyn #solzhenitsyn #marxism #racemarxism #communism

#readalong
To be continued...

"You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me."

#NOTthroughME

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart — and through all human hearts.
This Iine shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even the best of all hearts, there remains an un-uprooted small corner of evil."

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
The Gulag Archipelago.