Re: The Gulag Archipelago
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Wife got me all 3 books in the series... Working on the first one.
Mike
One man with a gun may control 100 others who have none.
Vladimir Lenin
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Re: The Gulag Archipelago
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Yes I have read it except only part of volume 3 .In some respects it turns your mind toward being a political activist as that would be the only way one man could really change things . I have more positive things to do with my remaining years .It is reality but is so soulless that I quit the very last part. The irony is they treated their own people worse than some of the other countries surrounding them .
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Re: The Gulag Archipelago
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Hard to read. I did the 11 hour audio book. I listen to books on my 30 minute ride to and from work. I wish everyone in high school was make to read this book, 1984, Atlas Shrugged, and A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in their English Classes. But those books, which really show how totalitarian governments take control because the people allow it, would be considered thoughtcrime in public schools today.
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Re: The Gulag Archipelago
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Its a slog but a worthy read, for sure. Yes I have read it except only part of volume 3 .In some respects it turns your mind toward being a political activist as that would be the only way one man could really change things . I have more positive things to do with my remaining years .It is reality but is so soulless that I quit the very last part. The irony is they treated their own people worse than some of the other countries surrounding them . It did the opposite for me. Solidified my belief that voting harder/ politics is not going to change our course.
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Re: The Gulag Archipelago
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The irony is they treated their own people worse than some of the other countries surrounding them . Sound familiar ?
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Re: The Gulag Archipelago
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A friend's father was in a gulag and only thing that saved him was WWII starting. They took what was left of the people in the gulag and shipped them to Stalingrad to fight the Germans. How soon we forget history. Wow talk about stuck between a rock and a hard place (The Gulag and the Battle of Stalingrad). It is a wonder he survived Stalingrad too.
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Re: The Gulag Archipelago
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Hard to read. I did the 11 hour audio book. I listen to books on my 30 minute ride to and from work. I wish everyone in high school was make to read this book, 1984, Atlas Shrugged, and A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in their English Classes. But those books, which really show how totalitarian governments take control because the people allow it, would be considered thoughtcrime in public schools today. I remember reading somewhere that The Gulag Archipelago is required reading in schools in Russia. Come to think of it, it may have been in the foreword in the book. Mike
One man with a gun may control 100 others who have none.
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