“We’ve covered ourselves with everything we own, plus a snow blanket on top. It does provide warmth. The snow is everywhere - our pillows, our hair. You stick your head out, take a deal breath, slip under the covers again and breathe out. Feels warm. The snow on your hair melts, then turns to ice. A winter hat. Silence. Darkness... The only thing visible is the snow.” Soviet UnionSoviet RussiaDiaryGulagLithuanian LiteratureLabour Camp Book:Shadows on the Tundra Source: Shadows on the Tundra
“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