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"I think the biggest news here is that the Russians (police? the Army?) are accused of removing as many as 400,000 Ukrainian civilians from Ukraine and spiriting them off to.... where? "

Having read the Gulag Archipelago one winter when I was about 32 before I had kids when I had time for such a book, I can say: There a PLENTY of old Soviet prisons to house them.

Sadly. THE darkest book of my life.

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Solzhenitsyn was my thesis subject back in the 70’s. It, and ‘A Day in the Life...’ were shattering. Svetlana Stalin’s autobiography is on my “just read” list. Our complacency and acceptance of status quo has consequences.

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"A Day in the Life of Ivan I llyich " was the topic of a criticism paper I did while getting my MEd. Applebaum's "Gulag" is a more recent revelation of what happened and can happen.

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Thanks for the recommendation!

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1000% agree with this, Gail.

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I read Gulag Archipelago right after it was published in English. It was a gut punch.

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I can remember when I had 4 little kids under the age of 6 and I waited excitedly for this book to come out.

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