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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The whole system of oppression ... was based on keeping malcontents apart, preventing them from reading each other's eyes and discovering how many of them there were; instilling it into all of them, even into the most dissatisfied, that no one was dissatisfied except for a few doomed individuals, blindly vicious and spiritually bankrupt.

Well, politicals - real politicals for the first time -- had now become "gangsters." It was announced, not very confidently, that these gangsters would soon be discovered ...”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged) The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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