Tal Taran’s Reviews > The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 > Status Update

"All you freedom-loving left-wing thinkers in the West. You left-labor rights, you progressive American, German, and French students. As far as you are concerned none of this amounts to much. As far as you are concerned this whole book of mine is a wasted effort. You may suddenly understand it all someday but only when you yourselves hear 'hands behind your backs, there' and step ashore on our Archipelago."

“He was always short of food but he wouldn’t get up. In his mind’s eye the steam from a bowl of mush could not veil the idea of freedom.”

“The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being, and who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart.”