Quotes - The Gulag Archipelago: Abridged (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)

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In this video I go over some of my favourite quotes from abridged version of 'The Gulag Archipelago'. These are select snippets that highlight the most important passages of the book where I will then adding my own personal reflections on the quote and why it struck me so deeply. If you are looking for a general overview of the book, please head to the Book Review, which gives a synopsis of the principal themes.

I summarised the book as follows. "The Gulag Archipelago is a monumental work and truly exposes one of the worst regimes that humans have ever created. The quotes I picked out struck me for their poignancy and capture the literary style of Solzhenitsyn. Not for the faint of heart, they show how kids were given 10+ year prison sentences, the fear evoked by an arrest and the depravity of the gulag guards."

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Timeline:
0:00 - Purpose of the video
0:57 - Arrests as a pandemic
2:42 - War heroes as criminals
5:30 - Stalin the jackal
7:20 - Inefficient interrogation
8:53 - You today, me tomorrow
10:51 - The line dividing evil cuts every human heart
12:45 - Hunger strikes are useless
14:41 - No gas for the gas chambers
16:37 - Competing plans
18:22 - Conditions of the corpses
20:24 - Children were not spared
21:38 - Arrests never got easier
22:55 - Blatnye: the theives
24:15 - 10 years in the camps for a child
26:08 - Going over your life with a fine-tooth comb
28:10 - Crocodile tears
30:41 - Growing old overnight
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