Gulag Archipelago

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https://archive.org/details/TheGulagArchipelago-Threevolumes/The-Gulag-Archipelago__vol1__I-II__Solzhenitsyn/page/n3/mode/2up

Solzhenitzyn got a Nobel prize in literature, prior to this book.

Notes

  • 175 evil also has a threshold, once crossed you don't return?
  • 174 - ideology is the justification of the evildoer, gives him perseverance
  • 168-70 . Powerful. How a genuinely 'good guy' turned evil
  • 168 - if only there were evil people out there insidiously committing evil deeds, and if only we had to separate them from the good ones...but it's all not as soon mole as that, as evil and good runs through us all
  • 144 - He was tortured by both, but the Gestapo was nonetheless trying to get at the

truth. and when the accusation did not hold up. Divnich was released. The MGB wasn't interested in the truth and had no intention of letting anyone out of its grip once he was arrested.