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Regina Johnson's avatar

Great read Curtis. What a great look into the world of the Soviet Union with a writer like Solzhenitsyn. I shared some of this with my mom and she thoroughly enjoyed your take and complimented your writing!

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Melisa Capistrant's avatar

"Reading it through without shying is no cakewalk, but it’s all the better for know what happened, knowing ourselves, and knowing how fast pied pipers peddling paradise, protection, racial solidarity, or anything else can take us to hell."

Yes. I'll admit I haven't tackled The Gulag Archipelago, but I've read his books Cancer Ward and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. I'm currently reading Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women's Voices from the Gulag by Monika Zgustova and it was hard to put down last night. The author chronicles the lives of 9 women who survived the brutal Soviet prisons and labor camps. Not easy reading, but important to not forget about these historical crimes against humanity.

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