ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

The true story of Nobel-prize winning author Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, who shocked the world with the release of his best-selling book The Gulag Archipelago.  Solzhenitsyn survived as a prisoner in the brutal gulag labor camps before smuggling his writing out of the Soviet Union and earning the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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In The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn wrote, "There is nothing that so assists the awakening of omniscience within us as insistent thoughts about one's own transgressions, errors, mistakes. After the difficult cycles of such ponderings over many years, whenever I mentioned the heartlessness of our highest-ranking bureaucrats, the cruelty of our executioners, I remember myself in my Captain's shoulder boards and the forward march of my battery through East Prussia, enshrouded in fire, and I say: 'So were we any better?'"

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