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A review by tittypete
The Gulag Archipelago, Volume II by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
3.0
More ghastly shit from Soviet Russia. This is part two of a fairly snarky analysis of the political terror and prison labor stuff that went on there for a super long time back in the day. This chunk of words covers the evolution of the prison camp system, a bunch of executions and some day to day color of what it was like to survive in super cold, foodless workfarms. People got grabbed and next thing they have to dig a canal from the White Sea to the Baltic or dig in a gold mine or something. Mostly you died. Starved then died. Or had dysentery along the way.
There were some interesting bits about how women and kids fared. (Spoiler: they fared shittily.) The part I found most fascinating was the description of commie loyalists who were steadfast in their belief that the commie system was perfect and there just must have been some mistake that got them there. True believers. Brainwashed and taking it on the chin for the party. History is fucked up.
Makes sense still why Russians are so scary. They went through a lot of miserable crap. Kids that get hit grow up to hit their kids and so forth. If ye catch my dangd drift.
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There were some interesting bits about how women and kids fared. (Spoiler: they fared shittily.) The part I found most fascinating was the description of commie loyalists who were steadfast in their belief that the commie system was perfect and there just must have been some mistake that got them there. True believers. Brainwashed and taking it on the chin for the party. History is fucked up.
Makes sense still why Russians are so scary. They went through a lot of miserable crap. Kids that get hit grow up to hit their kids and so forth. If ye catch my dangd drift.
Reading!