A Book Never to be Forgotten
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.) Alexander Solzenitzen
This is one amazing book. There is perhaps no other document and analysis of human evil quite like this. It’s like reading Kafka, only all of this was for real. With what I have encountered in the working world and at public universities, I cannot help but think that the motivations and forces behind the whole gargantuan insanity of Stalin’s Russia can also be found in minute forms in any human organization, especial the government ones. This book also shows that evil cannot be blamed on one individual at the top. It’s systemic and ubiquitous and self-reinforcing at every level. And I’m also of the opinion that if factory farmed or exploited animals could speak, what they would say might resembling the contents of this book.
