Picture this: you get arrested for no apparent reason. You tell yourself that it must be a mistake and it'll get sorted out, but before you know it you're being tortured into a confession for political crimes, and you're off to work in a labour camp for 10 years.It may horrify you to know that this is not fiction, but rather historical fact for millions of Russian citizens during the Soviet Union. Solzhenitsyn documents it quite well in "The Gulag Archipelago". He also documents the spiritual growth that accompanied this imprisonment for him personally.He addresses beautifully questions such as: are people good or evil? Who has it worse, the prisoners or the prison guards? And, is the "day of liberation" what we should all be waiting for? In this episode, I hope to shed some light on such topics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices