The Gulag Archipelago

[Jake]

Just finished the Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on audiobook. 3 Volumes, dauntingly long but totally worthwhile. I feel lucky and grateful to live here and now and not there and then. The book gave me a great insight into where collectivism ultimately leads- and where it could do again. I also understand much more about what unbelievable horrors happened under Russian communism now. Highly recommended, although beware that it is so long that I can't even call it a brick, more like a shelf of a book.

[craigr]

It has been on my reading list for quite some time. May have to bump it up now.

[Ad Orientem]

Fantastic book. In the West there is a near obsession with the Nazis but no one has a clue what went on in the USSR, especially under Stalin. In Russia alone they butchered at least 20 million of their own people. Millions merely for their religious beliefs. Communism and Nazism occupy the same moral plane.

Thank you Aleksandr Isayevich for your courage and timeless reminder of the pure evil of Communism.

Memory eternal!