Varvara’s Reviews > Архипелаг ГУЛАГ: 1918-1956 - Опыт художественного исследования > Status Update
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A big heap of coal was piled. Two zeks were digging into it, eagerly seeking something there. When they found it, they tried it in their teeth. Then they sat themselves down and each ate a similar black-gray lump. "What are you eating there, fellows?" "It's sea clay. It doesn't do any good, but it doesn't do harm either. And if you add a kilo of it a day to your rations, it's as if you had really eaten.
— Jul 22, 2025 03:10AM
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Varvara
is on page 750 of 1760
Just found out that the English version of Gulag is like 500 pages, whilst the actual book includes six books and 2048 pages. Doing my part by sacrificing the reading challenge for this one. Please do not settle for the abridged version you see in dymocks!
— Jul 13, 2025 06:47PM
Varvara
is on page 700 of 1760
I'm back to GULAG grind. In my defence, it's actually six separate books, so here we go (volume 3)
— Feb 19, 2025 01:25AM
Varvara
is on page 450 of 1760
"These people, who had experienced on their own hides twenty-four years of Communist happiness, knew by 1941 what as yet no one else in the world knew: that nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning and ingenious than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime."
— Oct 24, 2024 05:56PM
Varvara
is on page 240 of 1760
“To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.” Much to think about during one of the biggest prisoner swaps in our lifetime.
— Aug 02, 2024 07:27PM
Varvara
is on page 160 of 1760
currently pairing it up with the series about the first HIV outbreak in soviet russia (to prevent a single positive thought being formed in my mind)
— Jul 29, 2024 09:11PM
Varvara
is on page 80 of 1760
It's faith, rather than pseudo-morality, that makes you a human, and Solzhenitsyn is a brilliant example of that.
— Jul 15, 2024 08:16PM
