The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, 1918-1956: 2 (P.S.)

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Everyone should read this - By: Malcolm, 22 Aug 2008
Sometimes horrible, sometimes funny, mostly just unbelievable that a nation could plunge to such depths. Sadly it has to be believed. What shrines through, & makes even the stories of people's deaths almost funny is Solzhenitsyn's black sense of humour & sarcasm that's there on every page. He writes about how the guards didn't feed prisoners for sometimes days at a time, but talks about the hapless guard's with so much sarcasm & of how they were poorly paid & what a thankless task it was that you almost end up feeling sorry for the evil devils.

It's this sarcasm I think that alllowed him to survive his eight years & made him from a little cog in a giant faceless machine to a man who stood talll over the entire country.

What ever your view of Stalin & Russia, this book needs to be read,....must be read.

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