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."

I hope you have a fantastic day wherever you are in the world. Kyrin out!

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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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