“We forget everything. What we remember is not what actually happened, not history, but merely the hackneyed dotted line they have chosen to drive into our memories by incessant hammering.” PropagandaSoviet UnionStalin Era Book:The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 Source: The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
“Every act of resistance to the government required heroism quite out of proportion to the magnitude of the act. It was safer to keep dynamite during the rule of Alexander II than it was to shelter an orphan of the enemy under Stalin.” CommunismTotalitarianismStalin EraLabour Camp Book:The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 Source: The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956